Wednesday, September 12, 2018

The Engine Turns!

After much soaking and cleaning up of cylinder walls, we finally got a little rough with it and used a sledge hammer and block of steel to break cylinder #2 free.  Once we got it moving then things went pretty quick.  We cleaned up all four cylinder walls, they all look good.  Did some prep work for reassembly - removed tappet covers and got the tappets put back in place (four had come out of their holes), cleaned up the threads on the exhaust manifold pipe connection, then took inventory of what parts we need to start this thing up.  Here's some video of the pistons moving (Ray's under the car rotating the harmonic balancer with a wrench):


We then ordered about $70 in parts.  We look forward to re-assembling the engine and see how solid it is!

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