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Got the car moved over to a friend of mines garage to finish up the job. Be damned if we didn't find a good size crack that showed up underneath where the thermastat mounts to the case. So most of the day was spent today getting that crack tig welded. It been welded and fixed as on now. So got the engine back to the garage and put the flywheel and clutch disc, pressure plate installed. Tomorrow will mount the tranny to the engine, have to wait on a new mini starter to show up before we can install the engine and tranny back into the car. Disassembled the engine that was in the car.... Found a few problems. The mount for the oil filter, the ball bearing thats inside the mount, the seat that it sits into was more than half way out of its place to be seated at an angle. Found a couple of fins on the impleller (3) were missing and looked that they had busted off not very long ago. After taking off the engine tin I found 1 of the impleller fins sitting on top of one of the heads. Man am I glad I took this engine out of this car and got a good look at what was up with the engine. The cam an lifters are toast.

The crank and rods look good, pistons and cylinders look good, gonna bead blast the heads and search for any cracks that might be there, otherwise the heads look good. The case is being cold soaked and then magnafluxed to look for cracks. Looks like this engine is ready for a rebuild.


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