This doesn't look good...

[SanitysBane]

Well I finally found out what went wrong with Red. Heres a little recap for thoes of y'all that don't know; I drove home from a friends house and looked down at my oil presure gague which was sitting on 0. I shut the motor off, called dad and he towed me home. We checked the gague with another one we had laying around the shop, gague was good. So then we tried the filter, filter wasn't plugged, so then we pulled the oil pan. Now let me recap, this is a 1/2 truck with a big block in it. Pulling the oil pan is very easy in a 1/2 with a small block or a 3/4 with a big block, but a 1/2ton with a big block is a royal pain the butt, after pulling the transmission out, the flexplate, then using a cherry picker to hoist up the motor I pulled out off the oil pan, and then pulled the pump, the problem? The oil pump drive gear shaft broke. So after replacing the pump, and putting on a new 1 piece oil pan gasket and getting everything put back together, I filled 'er up with oil, and cranked her, with no mufflers that big block is music to my ears...except that I had a dead miss. Well after some checking I find out that it is number 3 cylinder. I had bought a new cap, coil, wires and wire loom for that motor for when I put it in Lucky 13, and I thought, "'Eh, just go ahead and stick them on." So I did, but the problem was oil fouled spark plug, how did it oil foul? Well the intake valve wasn't opening forcing oil around the rings, fun stuff. So why wasn't the intake valve opening? Well the picture below more or less explains it all, and you can see the number 4 exhaust valve lifter doing the same thing. I also found some lovely metal flakes in the lifter galley too... So I got a new camshaft and lifters on the way...maybe Red will run again... Below are also pictures of Lucky 13. She was complete til the day after I bought here, I attacked that project full force and now I have to stop to get my DD back in action.