Finished taping the windows on the muddy side and started to go around the shop. Didn't get a lot done Friday afternoon. I got a little more done saturday morning, but it starting raining around 11 AM, so I loaded up and cleaned out the trailer to get ready for driving down to the coast to pick up the Pontiac OHC 250.
That was a loooooooooooooong day. It was right around 500 miles round trip.
The weather around the upstate is so funky. I got rained on until I got 1/2 hour away from home, it was cold, rainy, and like 45*. I get a little east and it was gorgeous all day, even hit almost 60*. Sunshine. It was actually a nice drive, boring, but nice (not a lot to see, it's pretty flat and everything looks the same). Nice drive back... got 45 minutes from home and got rained on
The wife said it rained all day, the storm just parked itself I guess. We're at double the normal rainfall for January and there's still a couple weeks left.
Motor looks really good. Oil looks old but good. Carb appears rebuilt. Supposedly the head was redone 3-4 years ago. The balancer looks fried. Those have to be sent out and revulcanized, no one makes them. I think I'm going to redo the gaskets (only has a few small leaks now), get the balancer redone, clean up, paint, and throw it in the car and see if it works or not. Huge added bonus, it has the complete power steering set up, pulleys and all. This stuff if rare. These motors were only around for 4 years. The only aftermarket support is for internal engine parts, everything "outside" on the motor has to be sent out to be rebuilt.
Seller was a cool guy. He had a nice new shop too, I think 30x40. Motor came out of a 69 Firebird that got a v8 swap. He was also nice enough to make a little stand for it. With the stand I was able to strap the crap out of it and it didn't budge over the 250 miles home.