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Garage ? That would be nice. [ATTACH]
Holding off on vatting for now until I get some research done and my parts. There is no room for error due to budget constraints and parts...
Then there looks like rubber "grommets" around the oil galley ? [ATTACH] I think I need to wait until my rebuild kit gets here and I can see...
The reason I was gonna leave them in is because I've been tapping on a couple and they are set in pretty good. I did t want to mar the surface...
What about the brash bushing for the oil pump shaft though? Any ideas? I'm not sure my rebuild kit will come with a new one if I beat this one out
I'm getting new ones. I was gonna let them get eat up. Haha
I prolly need to get the oil pump shaft out because it had a brass bushing correct?
I've put some elbow grease in this block and I've decided it's going to have to be vatted. So, I'm building a "vat" Headed out to get a 50 lb sack...
[ATTACH] Pays the bills with a little bit of play money left over... Very little...
Yea my wife is pretty good with the leather stuff. She's just never done a door panel sized piece though and getting it mounted and all that. I'm...
I've been thinking about the direction I'm going to take the car. No trim. Flat blue ,white roof. Black walls with the stock hubcaps I found in...
Good info thanks! I got a cheapy harbor freight caliper. I'll check it out. My dad was a drag racer. We ran a bbc 468, we'd do bearing every...
Well I "have" a rebuild kit. Supposedly a master kit. I'm just waiting for it to get here, and it's free basically. Trading some labor . It's...
[ATTACH] I take that back, this cylinder has some rust and I can see where the rings sat. Also there is a small "gouge" hard to see in the pic....
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That black on the caps looks like a chatter huh?
Well I got her torn down. I'm not sure exactly what had it locked up though. No rust and rings are still shiny. Cylinders look good. It looks like...
Thanks for the offer 270! I'll keep it in mind for sure. I've been getting hammered at work and have t had the time to get it flipped over and...
Has anybody got one on an engine stand backwards?
I took that at one of my rigs. Thought it was a cool pic. Yea, a play on "black gold" I guess.
This 270 better be worth all this work! Haha
I haven't got it to budge at all. I have the heads off and the cylinders appear to be in good shape. I'm starting to think a bearing may have...
Is there a reason I couldn't turn it over and pull the rod caps and mains and pull the crank and converter out in one piece?
Alrighty I'm gonna try and get the short block on a stand backwards so I can get to the bottom end and start trying to get pistons out. That way I...
Anybody know how to get the flywheel and torque converter off this thing? [ATTACH]
Yea I'm trying to get a hold of this rebuild kit to see if it's standard or over.
I'm going to 12 volt for several reasons. Alternator Stereo Brighter lights Bags? Phone charging etc... seems like everybody switched to 12 volt...
My buddy has a friend...haha No really, he has a fiend that had a 55 royal and was going to rebuild the 270 a couple years ago. He never did and...
He left the sending unit off?
Imaging the harness baking in west tx heat and dry air for 30 years. It's hard as a rock and a lot of the wire is exposed with no insulation....
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