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Old 08-01-2011, 11:12 AM   #22
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Re: Barn raising

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Originally Posted by 54Caddy View Post
mike anymore word on engine. To handle the zinc problem every oil change i add comp cams break in oil addative which is very high in zinc. There are many oil to look at that have zinc in them. I will post some links later
I wish I could say that I had it all back together and it runs better than before. But business travel and life's responsibilities have gotten in the way and it still sits in the garage in a bunch of pieces while I decide what to do with it. To be honest I am still trying to decide. I was really hoping to find a smoking gun, but there was none other than the bent rod. Since it is all apart I would like to install a new cam but I still don't know if I should rebuild the heads or not. I am going to take the heads down to Crower to see what they think of the evidence. One of the reasons that I want to upgrade the cam and heads is so that i dont have to worry about the zinc content.
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