well I put a fresh coat of primer and black paint on the oil pan and bolted it up tonight, and managed to make a mess of myself with RTV, lol

then proceeded to give the valves a rough adjustment while cold so it's not too bad on first startup


sorry, no pics tonight


tomorrow I plan to finish up the last bits in the engine bay to prepare to drop the motor in this weekend

the clutch kit will be here on Wed, and then the fun shall begin!

 

man i've got to drive over and get a closer look at this thing. It looks great.

 

that spark plug wire loom thingy is sick man.. im gonna order one up

 

Sweet looking set up i liked the look of the oil cap just to pricey for me.... So i

Cost Cheap since i had the paint


o and Daytona Yellow

looking Good bleeder i think i might have mine running first tho i started in January.

Good luck
Tom

 

oh good, then I don't feel so bad about mine taking so long

lol

yeah I figured if I'm gunna dig THIS far into the motor, I'm going to accesorize with it a little and spend a little extra $$ to make her look pretty too I've been that way with everything I work on, from computers to cars, lol

there's definately cheaper ways to do it though, that's for sure, but I also could have dropped in a long block for cheaper

 

You should. Waiting on you to start this thing up reminds me of waiting on my first prom date to figure out how to get out of her dress with out tearing it. I know it'll be worth it but the anticipation sucks!!!!

 

Hey that is when my marlin crawler clutch is suppose to be here I bet they where on the same truck. I also bet they became friends on the ride over here from Cali.

 

lmfao


hey you're probably right man, lol

how screwed up would it be if they mixed the order up and we got delivered each other's stuff we would have to meet Wednesday, lol




Played around in the garage a little today.

The main thing I did was scrub a little more under the hood, bolted the fuse box back down, fixed the part of the wiring harness that runs across the top of the core support (apparently in the truck's past life, an overheat boiled water out of the rad cap, an it just melted the plastis loom that was around the wires ), and bolted the PS fluid resivour back down.

Got a few pics of the oil pan job from yesterday; looks a little more like a complete motor now








The only thing I touched on the motor today was sliding the dip stick back in, lol






Starting to go through and try to clean up a little with a few other parts that are going back in, but these I'm not painting; just "knocking the cobb-webs off 'em", so to speak





I did re-wrap the wire going from the ignitor to the dizzy though; the original stuff was looking a little shady





As you can see, I'm use'n my good 'ol MSD Blaster coil; been using that for quite some time now acutally






And just cause I was bored, and I have 2 cans of red paint left over, I decided to use a little


The garage is thick with paint fumes; you can see them in this pic, lol





tha's right!






why not, lol

 

Haha, yea, just a bit of fumes in there. Can you tell a difference with that msd coil?

 

Looks good man!!!

 

well compared to the original non working one, sure! lol

when i got the truck, the original one was leaking the fluid out of it, and eventually it quite firing. I had this one laying around, so I threw it in, and it's never missed a beat

 

haha jeez, everything is red.

 

Hey bleeder, No mods to the dipstick? Just stock?

 

looking good. You probably spent more time painting than actually building the engine. lol

 

knowing him, he painted the tip of it red then wiped all of the paint off so that the only red left is in the grooved hatch marks...

 

Bleeder man that engine is looking really good , now install the thing.

 

Hahahaha. Dont give him ideas.

 

oh man, no I should have chromed the dip stick, then it would have matched the oil cap!


lol



well my MC order came in today!

a little upset cause they jipped me outta $2 worth of stickers lol, no biggy, just going to send them an e-mail and tell 'em they forgot em; maybe I'll get a free T-shrit or something outta the deal

 

maybe a sas kit?

 

i think thats hoping for a little much, eh??