Recent content by Bret Tschacher

Oils is metered through the cam bearing and camshaft, if the bearing is not properly aligned in the block then you have a serious problem but since you saw that when the engine was turned, it shot oil with the shafts removed you had no problem. Things like this are what a guy learns from...

Why doesn't ANYONE ever bother to check the clearance between the pump gears and case? These gearotor pumps are critical ! You HAVE to check the clearance between the rotor lobes and more so the clearance between the rotors and the pump body cover ! Use you heads people, how is the pump going to...

I had one of these intakes back in the early 80's I installed on my old 18er, I cut the cross out of the center and opened up the chamber then put a 1 in, spacer under the AVS I had on it. Man that made everything wake up. Those old intakes like to have more room under there.

I always loved the Build a 318 and go out and just KICK some A mentality and wait for the other guy to argue Profusely about being beaten by one, They can't accept that fact until you show them the stamping and casting on the block !!! It ultimately HAD to be a 340 but then what the hey, it's...

I spent 50 years stabbing distributors and injector pumps so I can tell all of you it makes a difference, more so with injector lines, they don't bend like wires and in the end, you better have your S*$t straight when you finish no matter which or what you're working on. Number 1 is going to be...

That must have something to do with why VW put the dist. drive on an offset key in their boxers

Don't face the doors to the prevailing winds as a guy I knew insisted on doing after I suggested to him this was a bad idea. Before he got the building finished and the doors in a storm came along and his new 40x60 shop went along with it in a million pieces. I had a saw mill and he needed a...

No one is perfect, I had a couple of issues over the years, once I wired a 440 after a restoration and forgot the BB's spun the other way from SB's, another time I had the 4 wires from the dual ballast resistor switched thereby supplying only 6 volts to the coil instead of 10 or more, this made...

It might be worth while to pull #1 plug, rotate the crank to a point just before TDC on the compression stroke which would bring the timing mark up near the tab @ 0 back it off a little and check piston position with something you can hold in place as a piston stop. Then mark the damper wheel...

I I want the truck you have in your Avatar to put my 5.9 Cummins in !

That water pump bolt has an issue with SO many small blocks ! What a shame people haven't figured out to not do this is it doesn't go in all the way without resistance. Those top fuel blocks are alloy which makes a bit of a difference and we all know they don't have a long life expectancy. The...

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I have to agree with everyone else here too. The question remains, WHY? The 833 is already and overdrive 3 speed. Unless you simply like shifting more gears. Personally I have say I doubt you will find any 5 speed that can match the strength of that 833 ! I knew a guy in Bakersfield that had a...

Millions of ag and ind. engines have been cast for both wet and dry sleeves for over a hundred years at least or close to that. Here's just one example, Ford 8N types used factory sleeves and you can remove those sleeves and install with minor work fit in the pistons from auto/truck flat head...