Progress and then an interruption
Paint dry from yesterday, I got straight to work with the painted parts starting with the harmonic balancer. I had ordered the installing bolt for it, which after I re-checked…
From Short to Long Block.
I have looked everywhere but I can't find the damn hold down. It looks like I am going to have to shell out $78 for a think piece of metal…
Cleaning The Spider
With the short block basically finished I needed to redo the intake manifold to move on. So I cleared off the metal table and got to work taking it apart.…
Completing the short block
It time to put this thing back together i have spent multiple days painting the block, checking and re-checking things so it can go back together. I had installed the…
8 minutes of something other than the engine rebuild.
I know I said that I would not take on any new projects until I had finished my truck, but I needed to do this. I had the opportunity to…
Pistons and Rings
Now that the crankshaft is in It's time to install the pistons. I spend the first 45 minutes cleaning up around the shop in an effort to find the piston…
The main thing
I haven’t spent enough time down in the shop but today was productive. The past couple of sessions have been all about cleaning everything. Today I did some testing. The…