Ladies First
Great pics, what's your little friends name?
I figured my heads were fine but I wanted them to be looked over and wanted to get the seats replaced since I got them in my kit
I took them into my machine shop and they cleaned them, replaced seats and decked the surface
I took my crank into them because the clearance was too small for my liking.
While the machine shop had my parts I decided to paint some parts and clean things up before putting it all back it where it would be a lot harder to clean and paint.
Once I got basically everything I needed I started putting it all back together. I knew I would forget where stuff goes so I took hundreds of pictures and loaded them onto my IPad and turned up Pandora so I could have music and a great reference. Plus I had WiFi with Legacy central in case I got stuck.
Putting pistons in was a small challenge but I made due with what i could find
Couldn't turn the crank and look into the back at the same time
While trying to fit the heads on I found that the machine shop had put the dowels back in the wrong hole and messed it up so the block and the head had dowels in the same hole. I destroyed one dowel to get it out and just stole one from my old block to replace it.
I also added some ARP head studs to got from a member on here.
I got a new oil pump and water pump even though they felt ok but I figured why not? I have done everything else to it and the price was not bad.
Cleanest I have ever had an engine in my life. Almost don't want to put oil in it.
Ladies First
I got a bunch of friends together and we put the engine in. I learned you don't need a lot of help but it is nice to BS with people while you bust knuckles.
Some of my friends that are not as much of a gear head as I am. But as I put on my facebook event page "if you can screw in a light bulb, you can turn a wrench"
(notice a problem?) I didn't
Me hiding underneath trying to figure out what I missed.
Also cheerleaders are a great help too.
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