My 69 Dart "AKA" The Blue Mutt
more teardown today, what originally started out with a few simple things has snowballed into a whirlwind of cash burning and plenty of work. it was obvious that the rear leaf spring bushings as well as the strut bushings were worn out completely, after getting the lower control arms off I found those bushings were bad as well, they will be replaced and also to have everything new and refreshed I have pulled the uppers to replace them as well - mo work and mo money. I got the intake off and the heads, I confirmed what I thought from putting my scope down the plug hole, I have the TRW 11.5 pistons, you can still see some crosshatching in the cylinders so the block has been redone in the not to distant past or the engine never ran much after the rebuild. I also found out I have what I believe are "J" heads with the 2.02 valves, while they appear clean and have new valve springs it doesn't appear there was any other work done to them, tomorrow should be the last doy of teardown then on to all the cleaning of everything taken off or out, sure wish there was a better way to change the bushings on the LCAs, looks like I will be welding in the washer for my endeavor.
Part number pretty clear, glad the engine only has a .030 over, 2 bolts where it looked like the head gasket may have been leaking did not seem they were as tight as all the others, this sucked but now I will know exactly what I have with my engine.
more teardown today, what originally started out with a few simple things has snowballed into a whirlwind of cash burning and plenty of work. it was obvious that the rear leaf spring bushings as well as the strut bushings were worn out completely, after getting the lower control arms off I found those bushings were bad as well, they will be replaced and also to have everything new and refreshed I have pulled the uppers to replace them as well - mo work and mo money. I got the intake off and the heads, I confirmed what I thought from putting my scope down the plug hole, I have the TRW 11.5 pistons, you can still see some crosshatching in the cylinders so the block has been redone in the not to distant past or the engine never ran much after the rebuild. I also found out I have what I believe are "J" heads with the 2.02 valves, while they appear clean and have new valve springs it doesn't appear there was any other work done to them, tomorrow should be the last doy of teardown then on to all the cleaning of everything taken off or out, sure wish there was a better way to change the bushings on the LCAs, looks like I will be welding in the washer for my endeavor.
Part number pretty clear, glad the engine only has a .030 over, 2 bolts where it looked like the head gasket may have been leaking did not seem they were as tight as all the others, this sucked but now I will know exactly what I have with my engine.