Re: Dad

Posted by Dads 56 On 2021/9/11 23:23:04

I pulled the pan(again) as recommended to clean it out and check for parts of the broken lifter. that task done, I soaked the stuck valves for a couple of weeks, they finally freed up with the effort of a rubber hammer.
I then cleaned everything up, did a little valve lapping(first time) put on valve seals then reinstalled the head. ok........that wasn't so bad..... so I took off the other head and cleaned it all up(lots of carbon) did the valve lap, valve seals, then reinstalled it.

I also took the lifters out and serviced them as per the service manual

I know I may be doing things wrong but I want get it running to check the transmission and other things before the engine rebuild, Dad had an old partial gasket set laying around.

cleaned up the distributor, reset the points then rebuilt the carburetor.

pushed it outside, grabbed a fire extinguisher and went to fired it up.

Nothing, no spark. turns out I reinstalled the distributor a few degrees out.

That corrected, it fired right up. lifters still pretty noisy (sad face)

Adjusted the timing, set the carb as best I could. the car ran fairly well but then puked out the coolant. temp gauge is not working.

Shut it down and pushed it back into the garage to try to figure out the temp gauge issue.

I tested the oil sending unit previously and it functions. Also the oil light did not come on. New oil pump works well, the gasket was not seated properly on the oil filter can it it forced some oil out.


Can anyone recommend a decent external oil pressure gauge?

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