My first rebuild
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Drifting
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From: Tulsa Oklahoma
my dad has a friend who used to go dumpster diving at Lions drag strip for everyone's used bearings. So I totally hear what you're saying, but think your advice is premature.
This is his first engine, and putting one together correctly is hard enough when you've never seen it done (meaning never did it with your own hands on your own motor) first.
But I agree that putting a motor together on a top ramen budget should be required learning for anyone who calls themselves a hotrodder. I've emery clothed bearings, cranks, cams, used a paper bag for a head gasket, even touched up valves with a file and a drill motor - but I'm glad I didn't start there.... my first motor was a disaster because the machine shop messed up - so they fixed it (without much whining either, surprisingly)....
This is his first engine, and putting one together correctly is hard enough when you've never seen it done (meaning never did it with your own hands on your own motor) first.
But I agree that putting a motor together on a top ramen budget should be required learning for anyone who calls themselves a hotrodder. I've emery clothed bearings, cranks, cams, used a paper bag for a head gasket, even touched up valves with a file and a drill motor - but I'm glad I didn't start there.... my first motor was a disaster because the machine shop messed up - so they fixed it (without much whining either, surprisingly)....
Last edited by FatCat; Dec 5, 2012 at 10:40 PM.
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to get paper to work, you need to paint the paper
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on a 2 stroke Yamaha scooter.... it's amazing what will work if you'd rather not walk. I spend a bunch of my free time doing search and rescue (mostly because I love four wheeling) - and it continues to amaze me the ways people will engineer themselves out of a bad situation.... it also continues to amaze me how much all the stuff I carry with me now (because I'd rather not do the field engineering.... aka bubba engineering)
to get paper to work, you need to paint the paper
to get paper to work, you need to paint the paper
Scott
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I'll tell you one of my biggest screw ups. I assembled a whole Chevy 427 and I forgot the oil pump drive shaft. So being a know it all kid I dropped the shaft in from the top without the little plastic coupler. Ran great until the weather got cool and the oil got thick. Fired it up and revved it .....that was it for the oil pump, snapped one of the tangs off and no oil pressure!!! Wiped out the cam within a few minutes and then I heard the tapping of the lifters collapsing. All because I was to lazy to drop the oil pan in the car. So my advise to you is click your shaft to the oil pump as soon as you finish tack welding or screwing your pick up tube on your pump
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My guess with the floors is that they were rotted at one time and rather than fixing them the proper way someone just slopped a bunch of sealer on the floorboard to keep them relatively intact. Just another one of those things that you will have to address eventually.
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
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Drifting
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Hahaha! I am going to have to inspect more! I looked tonight underneath and it all looks stock. Maybe someone at some point just coated the metal and it looks and feels like FG. There is deffinetly no cut outs or anything that I can tell under the car. Guess Ill pull the carpet back a bit.
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Hahaha! I am going to have to inspect more! I looked tonight underneath and it all looks stock. Maybe someone at some point just coated the metal and it looks and feels like FG. There is deffinetly no cut outs or anything that I can tell under the car. Guess Ill pull the carpet back a bit.
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Drifting
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From: Tulsa Oklahoma
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From: Tulsa Oklahoma
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Drifting
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From: Tulsa Oklahoma
So I am planning for the future! Here is what I have in mind for paint on the block
What say you?!?! I have decided since this car is not all original, I might as well make it look original to me!
What say you?!?! I have decided since this car is not all original, I might as well make it look original to me!
Last edited by FatCat; Dec 6, 2012 at 11:04 PM.
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From: Oxford MA-----You just lost the game!!!!
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