Recent content by Bronze Barracuda

Apparently you can reuse them. It seems like they can be driven back in with a good blow from a hammer. Maybe use a little JB weld but that'd be a permanent thing might not be able to remove them again. Or maybe just a little thread locker the orange, it's removable. Unless you lost yours or...

Would you be able to get a picture of your valley tray/pan? Also where did you get it? Thanks.

lol, it was counter clockwise. You remembered correctly. :)

Well thanks to all for the advice on how to remove the heat shield from this cast iron intake. Short story it worked only took about 3 minutes But holy cow, (moo) sure I took the intake to a local u-blast shop but what I found under there was definitely not just sand blasting grit. In fact the...

Good lord tell me about it. A friend of mine bought a radio for his truck off of Amazon some brand I've never heard of obviously from China and the instructions in English are absolutely non-comprehensible it's beyond ridiculous.

It's an Enginetech, with a Cloyes part number. Crazy thing with almost everything coming out of China, how can we know if the parts come out of the same bin and just get thrown into whichever box that some company pays them to toss it into, Cloyes, Enginetech, Melling etc.

No there's two the other one near the bottom of the picture just blends in well with the pitted areas.

If I block the crossovers and use an electric choke would I need the pan still? edit; but I'm going to try and get those rivets out as you guys mentioned above we'll see how it goes.

It's sloppy on the key only. I've got it installed, for the time being. Strangely after tightening the cam eccentric and cam bolt the play is gone. But regardless I'm going to order a new timing chain and gear set. I'm just going to use the current setup to get the Pistons and rods assembled and...

I think I have a valley pan kicking around somewhere. If I do break the rivets could I just leave it off and use the valley pan instead of the manifold shield?

I just got back from a local u blast place to clean up some parts one of which was this cast iron intake. I know some media got in behind the shield, I suppose I could pry one end open and blast the other side with air, but I'd still be worried about some sand/glass that may still be under it...

Yeah I 100% agree with you unfortunately this timing chain set came with an engine rebuild kit off of eBay the Pistons and bearings and everything already installed so I'm not going to take all that apart to send everything back so I'm kind of screwed that way.

So I'm installing my new timing chain and gears and the cam sprocket is loose and has play against the cam key so I thought maybe the key was too small I took off my old timing chain gear and it fits snug on the cam and key well as a tiny tiny bit of play but nothing like the new one? Should I...

Thanks. The reason I was asking is I'm building my short block right now. I was curious why my 360 had no oil slinger/shield but my 340 did.

Why were the "oil shields" not installed on engines with the drip tray? Did the crank seal not need any protection if the drip tray was used?