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490 hits | 69.32 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
New rod bearings to be installed and seven more to go. Grease bearings, submerge pistons upside down in oil and ready to install.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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489 hits | 71.19 KB | Posted: 11/17/11
Good running 85' 318 2bbl scored out of a parts car we bought two years back. Ran well, but had a couple of leaks and...it's 27 years old, so we're freshening it up to replace the engine in the 83'.
(Posted in: Engine rebuild)

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487 hits | 82.18 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
Comp Cams lube all over the lobes of the new RV cam. A long water pump bolt inserted into the cam to use as a handle. You have to steal the woodroffe key out of the old cam BTW.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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484 hits | 43.93 KB | Posted: 11/17/11
Chain seems a little whipped, but I've seen worse. It will be replaced with a double row timing chain/gear set and a Magnum style MP chain tensioner, so it will never be slack again.
(Posted in: Engine rebuild)

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484 hits | 57.99 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
The balancer pulley is completely rust free. Try that with a wire brush.
(Posted in: Electrolytic rust removal)

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479 hits | 67.73 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
Picked up all my parts at once, from the states, having brought them in from Rock Auto, Summit and Advance Auto.
(Posted in: Rebuild parts)

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473 hits | 66.58 KB | Posted: 11/17/11
If hand lapping the valve seats and faces doesn't work, then you're in for a fairly hefty machine shop bill.
(Posted in: Engine rebuild)

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473 hits | 72.96 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
Tried this rust removal technique I learned from the Fullsizedbronco forum. Note the water vessel supplied by the township, battery charger and sacrificial piece of metal.
(Posted in: Electrolytic rust removal)

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472 hits | 12.98 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Less than $75.00 gets you a Canadian Y-pipe with no pre cats that gets you from the manifolds to the cat in 2 1/4" pipe. Walker 40430
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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465 hits | 77.22 KB | Posted: 11/17/11
Valve lapping time again. There's the course and fine lapping pastes on the bench in front of the Record vice.
(Posted in: Engine rebuild)

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458 hits | 46.44 KB | Posted: 11/17/11
Happily the seats and valve faces cleaned up easily and quickly with minimal lapping, a testiment to the good shape they were in. No appreciable guide wear either.
(Posted in: Engine rebuild)

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457 hits | 65.97 KB | Posted: 11/17/11
Cleaned the block exterior and then removed most of the rust with a wire brush wheel, readying it for paint. I'll replace the frost plugs when they arrive with the rest of the parts.
(Posted in: Engine rebuild)

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457 hits | 67.88 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
Dying for a low end torque and mileage increase, so we blew $204.00 for a Comp Cam with 16 new lifters. 250/260 compared to stock 240/248 degrees. Excellent torque and mileage, so says the specs 800rpms to 4800 rpms. Just what a heavy, tall geared Fi...
(Posted in: Camshaft)

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456 hits | 64.54 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
S.A. Double roller timing chain set installed over top the MP tensioner, which goes on EVERY smallblock I build. The Canadian stealership beat everyone at $33.00 for the MP tensioner. Advance came in at $35.00 for the timing chain set.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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452 hits | 76.28 KB | Posted: 11/25/11
(Posted in: Engine rebuild)

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439 hits | 60.2 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
One more shot of how well they simply clipped into the stock mounting clips.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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435 hits | 56.43 KB | Posted: 11/17/11
Cast in late 84', happily it has 302 heads but also happily, not the roller cam and low rpm valve train.
(Posted in: Engine rebuild)

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434 hits | 58.91 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
I cleaned each lifter bore thoroughly and then lubed them up with assembly grease.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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430 hits | 37.39 KB | Posted: 11/21/11
The results speak for themselves. Wiped the clinders out with rags and then washed them with soapy water, rag wiped dry any residue and oiled them up.
(Posted in: Cylinder deglazing)

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415 hits | 23.92 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Hush Thrush, Dynomas or just plain Walker 17713. Turbo style 2 1/4" muffler with the correct M-body inlet/oulet offsets for under $20.00. Just a smidge shorter than stock.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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413 hits | 10.19 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
This little piece clamped to the top of your tailpipe, over the axle, and slips into your rubber hanger bracket attached to the floor. It's shorter than a stock M-body piece to allow the thicker tailpipe to tuck up higher. Walker #35125 for @ $1.39
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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412 hits | 16.11 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Walker 43676 is less than $6.00 and gets you from the back of the axle to the rear bumper in full 2 1/4", with a turn down.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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411 hits | 37.4 KB | Posted: 12/2/11
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411 hits | 62.04 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
I did some clearancing around the base of the front trans fitting, with a sanding roll, but it would have fit without it. A stubby 5/8 inch wrench made install easier.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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408 hits | 75.24 KB | Posted: 5/8/12
(Posted in: paint codes)

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405 hits | 45.25 KB | Posted: 7/14/13
Another shot of one of the restrictions in all later M-body's exhaust systems.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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405 hits | 49.92 KB | Posted: 7/3/13
Did I lather the nut and exposed bolt threads in anti-seize ? You betcha ! That overflow tank's nut will never spin on me again ! Why is this important ? Because these are NLA and almost everyone in junkyards has already spun and ruined itself alread...
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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403 hits | 69.72 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Not one of the old rings were busted, but some weren't staggered properly. Mahle is a name I know and respect for piston rings, and at 24 bucks for the entire set, I'm happy !
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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400 hits | 73.02 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
Eight pistons in, 16 con rod nuts torqued to factory 45 ft/lbs and cam bearings lubed with assembly grease.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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400 hits | 76.9 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
Why go to larger 3/8 inch Polyamour lines ? Apart from my 28 year old rusty lines being due, I wanted a 44 percent fluid capacity increase for the lines. They now carry that much more fluid exposed to cooler under car winds
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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397 hits | 57.82 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Eight pistons done in less than an hour. I'd forgotten how much I hated cleaning pistons. Higher than a kite on those fumes, so I cut the garage heater and I broke for lunch.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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397 hits | 45.81 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
On older M bodies the rad cooling loop fittings are already 11/32 inch. If you want to get fancy you can move up the 1/32 inch to these 3/8 nipples that screw into our stock 1/8NPT27 threads.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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396 hits | 49.97 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
With a tappered punch or a piece of the new 3/8 inch line you can stretch and coax the stock transmission line clips to accept the bigger 3/8 inch trans lines. The new line snapped into place with a satisfying ting.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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395 hits | 44.54 KB | Posted: 7/14/13
This last three inches of the cat pipe is what you lop off. The cat pipe has been fully 2 1/4inch I.D. all the way up to the muffler, NOW it necks down to 1 7/8 inch pea shooter size. Uh uh, cut it off.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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394 hits | 52.58 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
Last time I paid nearly double just to get the balancer repair sleeve and gaskets and seal included in the kit. The seal and gaskets came free in the gasket set and the sleeve was $7.00 locally.
(Posted in: Rebuild parts)

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387 hits | 50.17 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Crank journals have had the 320 grit polish, yet to hit them with 600 grit. Came up like chrome !
(Posted in: Crank polish & Main bearings)

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384 hits | 84.48 KB | Posted: 7/10/13
There's the hose coming from the rad cooling loop, sneaking along under the rad, through the core support (no drilling required, plenty of room). From there it's routed over the bumper shock into the "IN" nipple of the remote filter. The next hose co...
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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370 hits | 79.94 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Couldn't find my whipped, 25 year old band type piston ring compresser anywhere. Canadian Tire will loan this tool kit free to anyone willing to plunk down a hundred dollar deposit(for three days).
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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364 hits | 65.15 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
What a treat this is going to be compared to my old, whipped, missing compresser! Just can't justify buying another one this late in life, since the last time I used one was back in 96 ?
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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364 hits | 13.21 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Sure it isn't mandrel bent, but it'll get you over the axle in 2 1/4" instead of stock 1 7/8" and for as low as $11.21. Walker 43633
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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357 hits | 5.31 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Here's the stock M-body cat. It starts out at a full 2 1/4" and even gets almost all the way to the muffler EXCEPT for the last three inches, which neck down to pea shooter size 1 7/8" to fit the stock M-body muffler. Prices range as low as...
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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352 hits | 55.32 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Talk about happy campers. The gaps on the new rings prove this bore is well within factory specs !
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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350 hits | 41.25 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
These fittings allow you to screw into the stock transmission supply and return ports and adapt you out to 3/8 inch lines.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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346 hits | 73.8 KB | Posted: 11/21/11
Clevite No. 219 9420, for Seven dollars at Rock Auto, gets you all the plugs a small block Mopar needs. No chasing around, ready to install(block AND heads). They even throw in one slightly oversized plug in case some GM trained monkey botched an ins...
(Posted in: Rebuild parts)