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Some bodyman made off with the paint code tag !
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741 hits | 63.21 KB | Posted: 12/8/11
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452 hits | 76.28 KB | Posted: 11/25/11
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547 hits | 71.39 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
Cleaned piston ready for new rings, in box to right. Mahle instructions further right and the ever present factory service manual on the left.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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501 hits | 73.6 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Got the new seals, assembly lube, lapped valves all ready to go into the heads with my buddy's valve spring compresser, on top of the head.
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491 hits | 79.92 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Last valve going in. Got my buddy's compressor back to him inside two hours, as he's a mechanic and I know how it feels to have loaned out a tool then need it.
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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 !
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305 hits | 49.24 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Can't say I know DNJ bearings, but they're American made and came in at 28 bucks for the whole set.
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266 hits | 68.39 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Torqued in the mains in three stages, ending at the 85 ft/lbs spec'd in teh manual. Twirls beautifully. Even remembered the rear main seal.
(Posted in: Crank polish & Main bearings)

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341 hits | 40.96 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
That's as clean as these pitons are getting. Cleaned the carbon out of the lands with a busted piston ring and everything got washed down with throttle body spray and steel wool and a tooth brush.
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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.
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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 !
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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 !
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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).
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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 ?
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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...
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307 hits | 26.91 KB | Posted: 11/21/11
26 year old cylinders still had fair crosshatch left on them. The band of fuel varnish build up at the bottom of the cylinder indicates the rings were less than perfect(though none were broken). This is the worst rust of the two cylinders that had ru...
(Posted in: Cylinder deglazing)

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330 hits | 71.6 KB | Posted: 11/21/11
This Flex hone is GREAT 40 to 60 seconds in each cylinder and they cleaned up perfectly. At 59 bucks it paid for itself first time out. I even splurged and bought their brand of honing oil. A tiny dab of fluid creates plenty of slurry.
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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.
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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.
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588 hits | 58.96 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
Double row heavy duty timing gears and chain for $35.00 at Advance
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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.
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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...
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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.
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557 hits | 73.45 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
Washing soda is added at one table spoon per gallon of water.
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556 hits | 63.34 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
A likely candidate for rust removal.
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734 hits | 53.15 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
The positive clamp goes on the sacrificial rod, that gets dipped in the water. It gest this much build up on it, every 6 hours. Shows how much rust is coming off the manifold.
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573 hits | 74.55 KB | Posted: 11/18/11
Removed, pressure washed after only 12 hours. 48 hours gets rid of all the rust...completely....inside, outside....all of it. The heat riser valve works like it's brand new, cleaning iron, steel and brass beautifully.
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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.
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490 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'.
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546 hits | 69.99 KB | Posted: 11/17/11
Tearing it down with an impact saves time. The engine in the 83, which this will replace, seems past it's prime and is impossible to time properly (must be a whipped timing chain).
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535 hits | 41.71 KB | Posted: 11/17/11
Main and rod journals are in amazing shape for a 27 year old engine. So were the bearings, but at Rock Auto's prices, we're replacing them and polishing the crank journals.
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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)