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Re: Restoring Rusty
It would be wise to get that cylinder head magnafluxed, that buildup on the spark plug is from coolant.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Never heard of buildup from coolant, wouldn't it just evaporate, I think its from oil blow by cause of the bad/stuck/broken oil rings, but we shall see if when I put it back together and drive it for a while, its all part of the learning process
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#4778 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Yea, it didn't seem like coolant to me, I think I mentioned in another thread it might be rings.
As much as you have in exhaust gaskets Gregg, you could have just got some better fitting headers lol |
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#4781 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty
best part of working on the truck is that it comes with it's own workbench
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time to clean these jugs
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then it was time to clean the heads
now we aint going for perfect here, just more better |
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and the exhaust side, all the gaskets like to stick to stuff
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the intake gasket was the worst, it was stuck around the water passages real good, I can't recall if I used any adhesive around these ports or not
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and the driver side cylinder head
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Re: Restoring Rusty
went with these standard size Sealed Power cast iron piston rings on a recommendation from an old machine shop old timer, he said these seat better than the stainless steel ones or them fancy ones
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got a proper tool for the job, an eight dollar ring spreader
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'Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it Don't be mad once you see that he want it If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it Oh, oh, oh |
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#4790 |
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Dude, you are prodigious! I can't believe how far you got into that motor in such a short amount of time: Let's see. ..wife's gone, the football game is over, kids don't need to eat til six thirty. ..why don't I pop the top off the motor and have a look-see. Hmmm, still got some time. ..I'll pull the pistons out too.
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well it's 9:00 AM, took today off, so let's see how much we can git done today?
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well by lunch time, so three hours later the pistons were in and torqued down to spec, I'll be honest with you I didn't think it would take me this long to drop them in, but hey I'm a One Man Circus Act
so here's how we did it first I do NOT recomment this piece of junk adjustable piston ring compressor, but hey it's what I had I bought it back when I was young and stupid, now Summit got them non adjustable funnel tappered ones which are awesome |
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always use protection
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we also went with Sealed Power brand con rod bearings but these were from Mexico, I dabbed these in oil to give them some stick-to-it-a-vness
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so around 9:30 am we got our first piston in...
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... the others went a bit quicker
I did them in numerical order - just because, but making sure I could fully rotate the crank by hand after each one |
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the driver side all done
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and the passenger side all done
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Re: Restoring Rusty
here's what the con rod and cap looked like, normal wear and tear if you were to ask me, for a 42 year old enjin
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