65 Barracuda daily driver
I tightened the exhaust manifold to I believe 15 ft lbs per manual, some were kinda loose. It seems to have helped a bit with that ticking sound, but it's still there. As long as it's not getting worse, I will ignore it for now. I still have the '67 273 closed chamber heads and I'm thinking about swapping them onto the engine. If I do that, I will replace all the lifters.
I had made sort of a transmission diaper to catch the fluid and it kinda works, but I realized that the transmission needs to come out. I will probably take it to a shop to fix the leak, because I don't want to deal with it anymore. I was trying to avoid that, because it took so long to get the exhaust in place and I didn't want to have to remove it again, but I will just mark the points where it goes together.
This Sunday it will be a year since we took the slant out and put the small block in. It's time to make this a daily driver again...
I tightened the exhaust manifold to I believe 15 ft lbs per manual, some were kinda loose. It seems to have helped a bit with that ticking sound, but it's still there. As long as it's not getting worse, I will ignore it for now. I still have the '67 273 closed chamber heads and I'm thinking about swapping them onto the engine. If I do that, I will replace all the lifters.
I had made sort of a transmission diaper to catch the fluid and it kinda works, but I realized that the transmission needs to come out. I will probably take it to a shop to fix the leak, because I don't want to deal with it anymore. I was trying to avoid that, because it took so long to get the exhaust in place and I didn't want to have to remove it again, but I will just mark the points where it goes together.
This Sunday it will be a year since we took the slant out and put the small block in. It's time to make this a daily driver again...
