- Joined
- Dec 25, 2002
- Location
- mont, AL
so the day started out more or less like this:
yesterday afternoon saw work on a number of fronts, but very little progress on the gold car. Last night after dinner was another story entirely.. cleaned and sealed the cam box up, dropped in the new lifters and cams, torqued everything down. there is a valve cover sitting on there, but it's mostly for moral support (and debris deflection during engine installation)
If you want to hear about almost burning the shop down with mark's wagon, that story will be in OT in the "what'd you do to your car today" thread.
I made a quick blockoff for the heater pipe, not going to plumb that in at all (may work in a coolant bleed from the back of the head where it would normally attach back up front, but we'll have to see on that). cleaned threads and installed new exhaust studs, also studded the bottom holes on the intake side. more on this later (if it in fact works the way I want it to).
hung the engine from the hoist, finished a few things up (err note to self, install last two oil pan bolts at rear of engine)
did the timing stuff and bolted on the mounts (that driver's side setup is kinda special. I'ma replace that before long. look it's the best I could do a decade ago with the tools I had, and it certainly hasn't gotten better with age), and then, fuggit, wing'd it on in'er.
upskirt view.
Still have to tigten all the trans bolts and install the flexplate hardware, and about a thousand other things, but the engine is in there. The weekend goals were loosely met, and as a bonus, other things got handled as well.
yesterday afternoon saw work on a number of fronts, but very little progress on the gold car. Last night after dinner was another story entirely.. cleaned and sealed the cam box up, dropped in the new lifters and cams, torqued everything down. there is a valve cover sitting on there, but it's mostly for moral support (and debris deflection during engine installation)
If you want to hear about almost burning the shop down with mark's wagon, that story will be in OT in the "what'd you do to your car today" thread.
I made a quick blockoff for the heater pipe, not going to plumb that in at all (may work in a coolant bleed from the back of the head where it would normally attach back up front, but we'll have to see on that). cleaned threads and installed new exhaust studs, also studded the bottom holes on the intake side. more on this later (if it in fact works the way I want it to).
hung the engine from the hoist, finished a few things up (err note to self, install last two oil pan bolts at rear of engine)
did the timing stuff and bolted on the mounts (that driver's side setup is kinda special. I'ma replace that before long. look it's the best I could do a decade ago with the tools I had, and it certainly hasn't gotten better with age), and then, fuggit, wing'd it on in'er.
upskirt view.
Still have to tigten all the trans bolts and install the flexplate hardware, and about a thousand other things, but the engine is in there. The weekend goals were loosely met, and as a bonus, other things got handled as well.