20 years ago a friend asked me to replace the main seal in his old Chevy dump truck. Its a 49-50 old workhorse that spent most of its life on a farm and must have a Zillion miles on it. Its an old 216 and that farmer must have been something in his day, cause when I dropped the crank down to roll the old rope seal in. I found babbit bearings on the block and inserts on the caps.....rods were the same way. Bolted it back together, threw a new clutch in it and 20 years later its still going.
/6. If you have seen the snake oil guy that is trying to sell you some sealing crap that will protect your engine at the swap meet, he's got an engine sitting there running without an oil pan. Every one I've seen was a /6. No oil, dirt blowing in, calmly idling smoothly, running all day long. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvEAzb545k
i did a thread on this afew years ago i have a 58 ford that had a 312-y-block (car was built in nov 57 so it must of been a leftover well i put over a 160,000 miles on it if i used 30 w oil it didn,t burn any oil the only thing that i change was the valve covers it finely died on the highway doing about 75 you can see in the pictures how clean the inside is when we took it apart a bolt on a rod cap broke this was one of the best motors i ever had and the only y-block that didn,t leak oil
in the mid 80's my buddy and i built a 64 chevelle dirt track car with a 350 sbc, bored 30, over cast iron double hump heads, 2 bolt main, it even had 1 rebuilt rod in it, and still does, raced 3 years, loaned the motor to a nephew who raced it for a while, then my buddy put it up for 20 years and i called him one day and said i was building a tudor hotrod/ drag car. he said ive still got our old dirt car motor come get it.... its now in this car as is, and will be raced this summer.....
I had a 1963 Mercury Meteor wagon with a 260 V8 in it. We affectionately called it the 'Meat-eater'. That little car was bullet proof and dependable as anything made nowadays. It leaked a lot of oil and at the time I couldn't afford to replace the faulty seals and gaskets so I kept putting fresh oil in it. Never changed the oil, only the filter a couple times. I figured the fresh oil running through it (about a quart a week) never stayed around long enough to get dirty. Bought it in 1979 for $450. Drove it from Colorado to Alaska in 1981 and for several years up north. Started with no trouble in Alaska at temps reaching down to -30° F. I kept cardboard in front of the radiator in the winter and still had to have a 195° thermostat and an ice scraper on the seat beside me to keep the windshield clear in the winter. Finally sold it in 1987 for $350.
Another vote for the Mopar slant 6, the cockroach of engines, you can't kill them. In addition, they have one of the most unique sounds when starting up.
I had a frend back in the day who had a 62 chevy two with 6 banger he got a new car so we put a brick on the acel pedal of the duce and waited for it to blow . well it ran for 45 min..... and never broke. I guess it didn't have enough power to distroy it self. I also had a 327 back in 1969 that I built from used blowen up engines I would get from the big boys that would give them to me .I couldn't afford new parts back then. Any way I put together an engine with thease salvaged parts and ran it in my Limited Sportsman car and finished 9th in the Mid Atlantic Region in 1969. I always wonder what I could have done with a real motor.(those were the days)
you sir,owe me a clean shirt and a jack and coke because i laughed so hard I covered my mouth with my shirt or It would be on the computer screen by now.... Hey you sure its the pill or your stealing the cats nip again
When i was living in nashville i got a junk yard 350 for 80 bucks out of a 72 monty, not its original motor, started it on a stand and it smoked a little, but ran great, so i put it in a 1969 bmw 2002 i got for 100 bucks from a tow yard, drove it for a while till it ripped out the trans, than i put it in an s-10 which i let a buddy borrow and he decided it was a dukes of hazard mobile and rolled it, rolled it back over and put the motor in my dads basement. I bought a 1963 4 door chevy body and put that motor in it and drove it for 2 more years till i had a wire fire. Motor is now in miami... it always smoked just a little but ran great!! i bet i put 100k miles on it and always drove it like i stole it!! i miss it...
forgot to mention the 1940 ford in my shop right now, the 53 flat head was built in 1962 and still runs great (1 owner car)
My 48 Flathead caddy. I've been beating the crap outta that engine for over 10 years and it's never let me down!
Back in the early '60's we ran 56A Chryslers on our irrigation engine. They ran at peak torque, 24/7, 9 months of the year. We had one that ran for 7 years before it got hard to start. For the last run we only needed a few days of pumping and were switching to 413's. To get it running we hooked two batteries in series to the starter, poured 30W oil down the carb while spraying starter fluid and spinning that starter for all it was worth. That Hemi sputtered a bit and smoked a lot but it ran for that last session. Wish I'd saved a couple of them
Yeah, it's the pill... I got script for Viagra.. As for the cat, I bought him a years supply of that funky green stuff.. He love's to roll around in it..
hemi mmmmm thanks ever played pink floyd for your cat while he is on the stuff??? its gotta be funny as hell
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