So, what did you do today?

[ShadowBolt]

drove the car a few minutes ago around the neighborhood and when I get back I can hear a knock at 2500 and up. Great oil pressure it idle (60 lbs. hot) and the knock is not there at idle or on decell. I hope it's in the valve train. Guess I should have not tried to be so tight and built another engine. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer to do all that work installing a unit that we never heard run. I made a video of it on my Iphone but you can't really hear it. Well $hit. May skip Cresson.


Not DL's fault. He damn near gave me the engine and I'm not upset with him. I'm mad at myself.

JJ

[AllZWay]

drove the car a few minutes ago around the neighborhood and when I get back I can hear a knock at 2500 and up. Great oil pressure it idle (60 lbs. hot) and the knock is not there at idle or on decell. I hope it's in the valve train. Guess I should have not tried to be so tight and built another engine. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer to do all that work installing a unit that we never heard run. I made a video of it on my Iphone but you can't really hear it. Well $hit. May skip Cresson.


Not DL's fault. He damn near gave me the engine and I'm not upset with him. I'm mad at myself.

JJ

I did the same thing with the engine currently in my car. Bryan made me a fair price and neither of us had heard it run. I did have to change heads because of what I think was a valve leak, but got lucky otherwise. I was willing to take the risk also, since I really couldn't afford to build a new engine at the time.

I hope you get lucky also and don't have a major issue.

[Fbody383]

Last night spent a couple hours in the Company tent at HLSR BBQ Cook Off... what a freak show.

[marshall_mosty]

Enjoying lovely Auckland, New Zealand.... Very pretty. Weather is very nice. Meetings tomorrow and then a few days to fool around before coming back to the states...

Unfortunately no V8 supercar races...

[edrock96GT]

Enjoying lovely Auckland, New Zealand.... Very pretty. Weather is very nice. Meetings tomorrow and then a few days to fool around before coming back to the states...

Unfortunately no V8 supercar races...

Be careful of crocodiles.




....snakes



...spiders



....rabid kangaroos.

[michaelmosty]

Thanks to everyone for the Congrats, we are both very excited!!! We got back from snowboarding in Winter Park, CO on Wed. Also got to ride snowmobiles which was an absolute blast.
Now its time to get the car ready for Cresson. The focus is going to be getting the torque boxes fixed so the right side might still be a little ugly.

[jdlingle]

Today I learned Japanese!

For instance: Mishimoto UNIVERSAL 19 Row Oil Cooler Kit translates to= Fits vehicles that have one of two included oil filter adapters.If I had learned Japanese earlier I could have informed American Muscle that their description of (fits Mustangs 79-12) should read (fits Fox body Mustangs only).

Still need to learn how to say "return this piece of shit" in Japanese. Back to the books.

[ShadowBolt]

Yesterday I started trying to figure out what the knock was on my new (used) engine. I used the old screwdriver trick to listen to different areas. I could tell the knock was in the front of the engine (or at least I thought it was). So I decide to pull the front cover off. When I put the impact on the bolt holding the balancer on, it came off with almost no effort. It was no more than finger tight (you will see why later). I pulled the balancer off to find it had been eating into the front cover (going to far up on the crank). After pulling half a million bolts out of the cover, pan, and valve covers I took the cover off. I could not see anything wrong. I took the crank trigger wheel off and noticed it was all tore up. Now this was the wheel out of my old engine since I had read that the powdered metal wheels were prone to cracking. I saw where the chain had been hitting the wheel and went and got the old wheel to compare them. The powdered metal wheen has a 1/4" lip on it that keeps it off the chain. I looked at the bottom timing gear and it had no lip but the one out of the old engine did. So to use the stamped trigger wheel you have to use the new type crank gear. Who knew? If I had just left the powdered metal wheel alone I could have saved all this BS. I'm betting this was the noise and the engine is fine. I will put it back together and chainge the oil again.


JJ

[Fbody383]

Also got to ride snowmobiles which was an absolute blast.

Single track or open meadow stuff? Got to ride at the Continental Divide once. The couple ahead of my wife was going so slow they got stuck, so my wife slowed down and got stuck. The boy child and I stopped next to her, skis up so we could get out. When I stepped off to help her out, I sunk chest deep into the power.

...so the right side might still be a little ugly.

Yeah, from the torques boxes. Primer is a color too.

[Rob Liebbe]

When I stepped off to help her out, I sunk chest deep into the power.

So the snow wasn't really all that deep.