Not Fast, just "Less Slow"

I have a LOT of things going on in my life right now and the Val is in the background until things get sorted out.
But, I am making progress, just not assembling much. The short block is pretty much together except I had a several week delay because the Cloyes timing set included in the Enginetech was WAAAAY too loose (IMO) when assembled. I just got my new Rollmaster double roller yesterday but have not tried it yet.

All this talk about distributor and oil pump gear failure has me paranoid so I'll probably do the squirter tube mod to shoot oil directly on those parts. Have the tubing and pipe plug prepped but need to drill and tap the block.

Sometimes I take parts to work and stay after to bead blast or clean parts. I also can powder coat now so anything you see in the pix with black color on them is powder. Except for the red parts which are painted engine color from a spray can. I wanted to check the color against some virgin color hidden from 51 years of exposure. The piles are divided up into newly purchased parts and refurbished parts. The little bags are full of hardware that has been cleaned and/or blasted.

Now I just found out recently that the Airtex brand is earning a bad reputation and my new water and fuel pumps are Airtex. Oh well....they're going on as they're easily accessible when they fail.

More later.