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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...

Rephrase that to read traction first then work on the torque until you have the results, if you build torque first, you will not have traction sufficient to accomplish the task.

We should share emails so we can share our experiences with carby's. I spent many years of my own life drilling, soldering, and drilling jets again inside carbs, installing different sizes of copper or brass wires soldering those in jets and replacing jets and metering rods, adjusting rod...

You don't see many people painting aluminum radiators aside from a clear coat to keep them from corroding.

Even for 50 yr old factory stuff, MOPAR rods were usually much better then the competitions rods. All that said, regardless of the brand name on them, rods were factory tested and rated for cycles, the number of times they could be stressed to the max before the material itself failed to return...

Physics doesn't discriminate based on color or brand! The fact is engines are usually painted for rust protection regardless of color. As was said earlier, black is impossible to detect oil leaks, I built a Ford 7.3 L for a guy not long ago and he wanted to paint it Ford Oval Blue, I said that...

2varieties of redheads, drop dead gorgeous or drop dead ugly.

No need to tell me how complex they are, I started working with electronic engines controls when they first came out in the late 70's and stayed with it till just the year before last when I stopped. I am currently working on a MegaSquirt system using speed density for my latest project. By the...

As for new Hemi's, yes they are technically advanced but not materially. Any new hemi that was suitable for endurance racing would be so far away from what the factory produces it would be out range for public projects. They just aren't up to it as the old hemis or any other production were...

I don't condon street racing in the sense you are referring too either however that isn't going to stop idiots. When I 'was' street racing in Bakersfield we usually took it out of the city to a way out paved country road which are very plentiful out there. Also in the small town of my birth...

Pretty much how it is with any sanctioned racing. Which is why so many are turning to street racing. With all the rules and restrictions, limiting everyone to running pretty much the same parts aside from manufacturer of the body and the basic blocks, etc.. It comes down to driver ability and...

B But I've seem it coming since I was still living in Calif. back in the 80's. When I first got the I should have seen it then but things were still trying to hang on as long as they could back then, we had like 3 speed shops in Bakersfield for a while and they slowly closed down. Most of the...

Brings to my mind that song that says It's the End of the World as we know and I feel fine.

Me either, If so I think I'd do a Rosie Greir and take up knitting. I knew some people that bragged about their RC cars and stuff, like rewinding the motors and whatever.

Doesn't matter what's in the oil? I guess in the past the zinc was just an accident. So maybe new lifters are junk as most is likely being made in China but how many cams were ruined by improper break in. I've been building for over 40 years and I never had a cam go out in 15 minutes but I have...