Nov 22, 2025 #51 Miranthis FABO Gold Member FABO Gold Member Joined Jun 5, 2024 Messages 275 Reaction score 232 Location Shawnee, Kansas Thank you Jim at RacerBrown!!! The cam, lifters and springs have arrived....
Nov 22, 2025 #52 R72Demon Well-Known Member Joined Jan 19, 2005 Messages 934 Reaction score 288 Location Rome, PA What a great story, sounds like your car is very deserving of this restoration!
Nov 24, 2025 #53 Miranthis FABO Gold Member FABO Gold Member Joined Jun 5, 2024 Messages 275 Reaction score 232 Location Shawnee, Kansas Got the upper ball joints off...one easily, the other took a 4 foot cheater bar on my 3 foot breaker bar. Now a little surgical use of a saws-all and the frozen cam bolts will be out. Update, end of the week.
Got the upper ball joints off...one easily, the other took a 4 foot cheater bar on my 3 foot breaker bar. Now a little surgical use of a saws-all and the frozen cam bolts will be out. Update, end of the week.
Monday at 2:21 PM #54 Miranthis FABO Gold Member FABO Gold Member Joined Jun 5, 2024 Messages 275 Reaction score 232 Location Shawnee, Kansas Dropped the Cam, lifters and springs at the Engine shop. got some pics. Bottom end. Top end, this was the worst cylinder before boring. Pretty new pistons... the pin fit in the rods are almost too good to be true. Old and one new laid out.
Dropped the Cam, lifters and springs at the Engine shop. got some pics. Bottom end. Top end, this was the worst cylinder before boring. Pretty new pistons... the pin fit in the rods are almost too good to be true. Old and one new laid out.