/6 head bolt + ring and bearing suggestions please.
Why anyone would skip that process when it's so cheap considering all the other costs involved escapes me, yet, some people do.
I have seen some janky hanky in my life! -- IMO there's nothing like working in a clean environment with clean parts. I am very very OCD about this. Greatly saddens me we have nothing close in my area to take care of this stuff.
We own a shop, I may just invest in a parts cleaner -- for myself, my family and my local area. I'm sure cleaning peoples parts who have no where else to take them, would pay for the machine in a years time!
I have a 3' parts washer this motor has made me need to replace my fluid in :eek:
Purple Power is a good greaser, oven cleaner may also be your friend.
If re using the rocker arms, give those a through cleaning, carb cleaner is good for blowing through the oil passages.
The rocker shaft should have the cup plugs pulled and scrubbed internally and the oil pump pressure relief valve should be serviced.
I by Purple Power by the gallon! I recommend that stuff to everyone I know. My brother recommended after cleaning really well to use a paint stripper on it as well then clean again.
I have an air compressor and tools - I blow out everything I can with compressed air and brakleen.
Thanks for all the infos guys, I had not even thought about servicing the oil pump although its been dunked in my parts washer for a while now. I will make sure to look into this!
Still heavily up in the air about tossing this motor together or saving it in the corner for a future project (when I'm able to replace the block or get it tanked, buy a cam(expensive) and lifters/push rods and fab some exhaust). I have a ton of /6 stuff now that I want and will use at some point for sure.
Grabbing a SB 904 from my bros house over the weekend and retrofitting this 318 with it into my 63' to see if I want to go thru that hassle or not.
After further looking into things, the sbv8 is 220+hp with 300tq and the /6 is sitting at 110-145hp and 200ish tq. -- Makes me want to buy a wagon for my /6 :lol:
