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Originally Posted by McMurphy
Man you are going to love that load leveler, especially if you do an engine/tranny install without the whole front end tear down.
I only took the hood off my "66 Tempest to do my engine/transmission swap and the leveler made it a sweet deal!
I just wish I had oiled or greased the threads of the leveler first, and at that time if I had the power tools that I do now, I would have mounted it "backwards" and just put the air wrench to it instead of all that cranking.
You seem to know your way around the engine.
Far far better than I do!!
keep us posted man, I like this.  |
I realized the same thing about the oil on the leveler! It was a pain in the ass to crank...and the handle knob was a cheap screw on thing that kept falling off. Oh well.
Most of what I know about this engine stuff is just from hours of reading things online over the winter. When it comes to rebuilding I'm probably going to have a family friend who does vette stuff as a hobby come over and help. This is the same guy who put NOS on a v6 motorcycle and caught the brake lines on a vette on fire because his headers got too hot...I think he was pushing well over 100mph when he did that though.
I also have a great-uncle who used to rebuild but I hardly talk to him. Last I knew he'd just dropped 60k into building a chromed/velveted '34 F**d coupe. Wouldn't mind having that sort of cash flow for my project!