The Jalopy Journal
The bearing contacts the tips of the arms. It may be a little on the small side (I think) , but it has never slipped through. Also, I tried...
The clutch disk is off center, but I'm pretty sure that happened when I was taking the transmission out. I'll have to look at that pressure plate....
Thank you! I'll try this evening. The linkage moves freely when not bolted to the clutch fork. I don't think it's binding, but it is definitely...
Hello, I have a 1956 Pontiac that I decided to manual swap. This has turned out to be a lot more complicated than I had been expecting and I have...
Wow, 6x heads! That's going to be amazing! My exhaust was rusted down to nothing, so I'm going to have to start from scratch on that. I might...
At first, I tried drilling oil passages in a set of screw in studs, but I am so inept at machining that I kept breaking bits due to chatter....
Progress has been embarrassingly slow due to life being pretty busy right now, but I finally took the heads to a machine shop and they put in some...
The mounts are done now! [ATTACH] They are a bit booger welded but they seem functional.
I hadn't noticed that before.....They were pretty hard to get on there! My machine shop lost some of the original valves, so these are...
Thank you for the help!
Here is is picture of one of the intact studs: [ATTACH]
I just remembered that the rocker arms are lubricated by the studs and realized that the screw in ones don't have any holes in them. Is the only...
yeah... The early heads do have a different intake bolt pattern, but I fortunately had an early intake to go with them.
Thank you! The seller sold me the the 389 as a short block, so I used the 56 heads that I already had. I agree that they are far from ideal! They...
I recently ran into this debacle and I decided that it would be best to make a thread separate from my build thread so that it could be more...
If it were mine, I would butcher it into basic drivability and start having fun! The rear end is pretty bad, but it would only take about a...
The past few days haven't felt very productive, but a lot of the little things that prevent it from running are getting done. The biggest current...
THE ENGINE IS BACK AND FINALLY IN!!! [ATTACH] The machine shop ended up taking about 8 months to get everything finished, but I got it back...
Man, that looks AMAZING!!!
Thank you, everyone for the advice! I'll start looking for a new one immediately.
A while ago I bought this flywheel and I have been really worried about the heat cracking that it ever since. Do you guys think this crack (the...
Maybe not if you embrace the low end by using a tiny cam.;)
I have a ton of engine building questions for a project that would probably be considered off-topic, but the engine itself will be very HAMB...
If it were mine I would build a hi-boy on deuce rails. It's hard to beat an A no matter what style, though!
Awesome! Viola has a genuineness that's really cool.
So three degrees up is the best choice?
Adjusting side bearings turned out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be, but the rear end is finally all back together. The only thing...
A few weeks ago I decided to try pouring oil in the cylinders as a leak down test. The oil took a looooong time to seep through, so I'm guessing...
Today I finally got the rear end all torn down. The wheel bearings were junk, but all of the other bearings looked great (I would never reuse...
Not a POS at all! Congratulations on your find!
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