Project TLOW - 1971 stepside

[Rod Run]

After more investigating, the retainer is still good. I just need to figure out which size retainers I need, to make up for the thickness of the caps once I take them off.

I also don't know what type of damage the broken off pieces went, when they went down through the engine. That's the part that's worrying me right now

[Hankster]

Originally Posted by Rod Run

This is not good. I'm not sure what I want to do right now. I have no idea what this engine has for a cam, or what the rating is on these springs

Ouchhh, that doesn't look good.

Originally Posted by Rod Run

After more investigating, the retainer is still good. I just need to figure out which size retainers I need, to make up for the thickness of the caps once I take them off.

I also don't know what type of damage the broken off pieces went, when they went down through the engine. That's the part that's worrying me right now

So does that mean that the motor will be okay?

[Rod Run]

Originally Posted by Hankster

Ouchhh, that doesn't look good.

So does that mean that the motor will be okay?

I don't know yet. I'll probably tear into it more within the next couple of weeks. I had to step away and regroup after seeing that.

I have 3 toys including this one and they're all broken and need attention, so I've got to put my energy (and money) elsewhere right now. I want at least one of them running before our cruising season starts around here. Now I've just got to figure out which one will be the easiest (Cheapest) to fix

[Rod Run]

Still not wanting to dig deeper into my engine yet, I figured I'd button up my rear end instead, jUST so I can run my brakelines and keep things going forward.

I bought an ARP 12 point stainless bolt kit for 12 bolt rearends (Like to keep things pretty, yet maintenance free at the same time) and went to install my cover today, but I hit another dead end. The bolts are way to long. I measured the depth of just the holes (which are deeper than the actual threads) and they aren't even as long as the bolts from ARP.

I called ARP and they said that my only option was to buy bolts out of a kit, but they only sell them in packs of five. That would have cost me over $35 for cover bolts and that's insane!

Their other option was to mail them back the bolts on my dime, and they will replace them with shorter bolts. They were in the mail less than an hour later. LOL