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Originally Posted by scooterskoolkustoms
I love what your doing,This is how true hot rodding started out.Not openning your wallet but looking and making what you found work.Keep it up.
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Thanks, but my wallet hasn't been ignored.
Todays progress was not quite as much as I had hoped. I did a lot of work, but the drivetrain is not in yet. I stripped the engine down and pulled it from the tranny.
I started installing some of the parts onto the new shortblock. I went to the local junkyard and found some heads to use. Not the vortecs I was planning on, but an old set of 283 heads with 60 cc chambers. They are soaking in the parts washer tonight. I think the rockers and rocker balls are shot, too much rust. I'll pull the ones from the old engine along with the push rods. I should be able to use the recycled intake also. Good thing I had almost a complete set of gaskets laying on the shelf. I should be able to get the engine back together tomorrow and if it gets bolted to the tranny, I'll set it in place.
I did manage to clean up the tranny/t-case and spray some rattle cans at it. I'll still have to fix the leaks, but at least they'll be cleaner parts to work with.
