It's like they put a big bow on it for me. | |
Also that's the seatbelt from the donor vehicle - tied around the exhaust manifolds on both sides. | |
Disassembly in progress. Someone's been in this motor - the front
cover is "made in china", the intake gaskets were Fel-Pro, and the rockers
were all way too tight. With the rockers removed, a leakdown test showed a lot of air getting past the valves - ranging from < 10% on cylinders 1 and 3 through 60-70% on the ones towards the back. There is no ridge on the cylinder wall, and I would have expected one on a 150k mile engine. Maybe the bottom end is relatively fresh (wouldn't that be nice!) | |
Pan is dirty but not sparkly. | |
I've got parts I need to get rid of now. Like this block/crank/most of the pistons... | |
.. truck intake, dbw throttle... | |
.. exhaust manifolds, ps pump, truck brackets and water pump... | |
Two sets of 853 heads... | |
Valve covers, truck coil packs, flexplate, motor mounts... you know, everything. | |
The head bits I'm keeping. | |
Going to update the trunnions and use them. This had been on the to-do list anyway. | |
I lost track of which shims went where on the McLeod clutch. Hopefully this pic from 2008 will steer me in the right direction. | |
LA Awesome cleaner melts carbon. | |
Maybe multiple applications and a brush helps. | |
Is this a GM cam? The "1721" in quotes makes me think no, but
searching on the numbers didn't help any. The actual stamped values are: "1721" 1237 419967 | |
Holley's 302-1 oil pan is actually *really* similar in shape to the stock F-body pan. | |
Looks like maybe it gives a little more clearance to the back edge of the crossmember? | |
Got a new cam. This one is much more aggressive. Conveniently, the directions suggested the trunnion update I was already doing. |
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