Re: HA's 52 200 Grey Ghost
Posted by Hans Ahlness On 2014/2/2 0:36:39
It was a balmy +5F today so time to work in the hangar, ran out of propane and had to go exchange a cylinder at lunchtime but otherwise not bad in my bubble. I removed the valve covers and the valve area isn't too gunked up at all, that's promising. Hooked up a battery and spun the engine over with the starter, all the valves are free and the lifters seem to all rotate so that's promising too.
Then I chipped away at the hardened dirt/oil concrete on the driver's side of the engine, removed the oil filter, distributor, starter to get to the block. All that stuff needs to be cleaned up and checked. Got the trans lines loose at the cooler and removed that too, and the fan. I will remove the pulleys to get to the timing cover and water pump etc too. Anything that I can throw a new gasket at I will.
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Then I chipped away at the hardened dirt/oil concrete on the driver's side of the engine, removed the oil filter, distributor, starter to get to the block. All that stuff needs to be cleaned up and checked. Got the trans lines loose at the cooler and removed that too, and the fan. I will remove the pulleys to get to the timing cover and water pump etc too. Anything that I can throw a new gasket at I will.
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