View Poll Results: What should I do since I'm this far?
Pull the engine, minor rebuild, because it won't hurt only help
9
36.00%
Pull the engine, reseal it, paint it and put it back in
3
12.00%
leave it in.. do it when it really needs it
13
52.00%
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Pull engine now or wait?
Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Livonia MI
Since you're planning on pulling the engine anyway, may as well do it now. Never a good idea pulling heads and things, with the engine still in the car, as could risk scraping up body paint. Plus, much easier cleaning/painting things up, under the hood. Not sure of your room/set up, if have the room to drop the 455 into your Buick, but could either borrow another stand, or store it on wood blocks.
Team Owner
Joined: Oct 2004
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From: altered state
St. Jude Donor '05
If youre happy with the way it runs nows the time to pull it
Clean paint then you can detail the engine compartment so it looks new.
Doesnt take a whole lotta $ and is worth it every time you raise the hood.
Clean paint then you can detail the engine compartment so it looks new.
Doesnt take a whole lotta $ and is worth it every time you raise the hood.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Nov 2000
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From: Galloway Twp. NJ
Cruise-In VII Veteran
okay, you made me laugh..... while my gaskets don't leak on my Corvette, the *&^*%%*!!! oil pan drain plug does - I think with older Corvettes you have to take a more relaxed view of oil spots and simply say (like the VW folks, and Harley folks) it's marking its territory.
Had a 1976 L-82, 4-sp
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From: Some days your the dog and some days your the hydrant.
Royal Canadian Navy
If you pull that engine now with 76K miles, you will soon find out that you will indeed need to do a lot more than you are planning. No sense pulling the engine and doing it half right or half wrong. I'll stick with the 'if it ain't broke.....' philosophy until such time that you are in a position to do a complete rebuild either by choice or forced into it.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Apr 2007
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From: Graceland in a Not Correctly Restored Stingray
Since you're planning on pulling the engine anyway, may as well do it now. Never a good idea pulling heads and things, with the engine still in the car, as could risk scraping up body paint. Plus, much easier cleaning/painting things up, under the hood. Not sure of your room/set up, if have the room to drop the 455 into your Buick, but could either borrow another stand, or store it on wood blocks.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 5,116
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From: Livonia MI
Actually, have a couple 4 wheel furniture dolly's, and had a BB stored on one of these for years. Was in a patio storage shed, so out of the way. Had the Home Depot rip a 4x8' sheet of plywood in half, so could roll it accross the lawn.
