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Re: 1967 GMC - SWB, great patina
After a week and 6 unreturned asks to buy a used engine lift on Marketplace, I slunk to Harbor Freight and bought their $99 cheapie - will hold the 6.0. I searched Craigslist but that place has officially died. Searching “engine stand” get you used cars, mixers, hiking boots, anything but an engine stand.
The dipstick had broken / rusted off flush with the block, and I picked up a 302-1 oil pan kit. The truck pan hangs below the crossmember in my ‘68 so I wanted to change that this time around. From the underside the cylinder walls still have some crosshatch showing, and nothing looks awful. Used a brass punch to pound the dipstick back up/out. The Dorman 917-303 tube I bought would NOT fit. It measured 0.010” larger diameter than the original tube. I’d already dinged it up attempting to install, so used a flap wheel on a die grinder to turn the OD down a sniff. Covered it in never-sieze and sent it home.
Waiting on a timing cover alignment kit to arrive from the Bezos to continue work…
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