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This thread - I read as much as I could stand - is full of the usual bad ideas. In those pics, I don't see any sign the valves were hitting the pistons. Maybe they were, but it doesn't look like it. And of course, even if they were it would have nothing to do with overheating. Do people...

Well..I looked on Facebook and found several Mickey Williams pages, none of which appear to have anything to do with oil pans....

Thanks all. I'll post a pic of the baffling once I get them. It's a simple shield, basically. I actually don't recall what I paid* but it was under $500 and more than $300. Cheap, no, but not bad either for custom built, American made parts. *Mark is very 'in demand' and works 12...

Long time, little progress. But....the Gerst suspension (and Wildwood brakes) arrived and the Winchester valve covers shipped to me today. So, the time is approaching that I start making some headway again. Mark Winchester in CA fabbed these covers to my specs...he is a one man operation...

It's appalling how liberals have people running scared and accepting the 'fact' that they should be ashamed of being alive. It's the result of formal education run amok. Too many useless people with too much free time on their hands. Too many people who no longer have to work for a...

While I agree, the problem is....there are too many humans to make it possible for everyone to live an agrarian lifestyle. If you took every 98lbs., Spandex wearing homo out of NYC and gave him 5 acres to till....you'd run out of land and still have 4 million eyeballs staring at you. The...

If you took 1000 people and gave them the choice of the top or bottom photo, almost everyone would choose the top. If you came back a week later, 999 of them would be begging you to take them back to the bottom photo. That's because the top photo is incapable of sustaining the existence of...

The concept we are destroying the Earth is pure bullshit. It's the invention of liberals. It's the propaganda they feed to the masses in order to train their thought processes. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but even synthetic oil comes from oil. The few that don't come from other...

When I changed the gears and added a limited slip carrier to my '16 Ram, the paperwork that came with the carrier specifically said not to use synthetic. I think it said synthetic would likely cause chatter in the clutches.

Another aspect of commercial vehicles is they tend to do a lot more idling-for-hours. I'd bet an engine that idles a bunch doesn't get the oil distribution of one that's driven 'normally'. Commercial vehicles also are driven by a far different sort of person than the average car owner....they...

I agree, regular and frequent oil changes makes a huge difference. As for conventional oils....I have to admit I'm surprised the oil companies have continued to produce it, and continued to improve it. Every year, the demand for it must be decreasing. But the modern conventional oil is a...

I know any thread that deals with oil will generate a lot of opinions, but just for kicks... I ran into an old friend yesterday I hadn't seen in over 10 years....he owns a company that services fleet vehicles. His biggest account is a telecom company, they have a bunch of heavy and light...

The stock 340 stroke of 3.31" is plenty good for revving the crap out of....it's the valvetrain, and other parts, that will be your limitation.

My father served in WWII in the Pacific...he told of a sailor who never took showers, was smelly, and was always getting the unit demerits. That happened a few times and he didn't seem to be getting the message....so one day he was taken into the shower by the rest of the unit and scrubbed...

I really don't know anyone who fit that description. If they exist, then I don't look down on them. Even people who have partied their life away, I don't look down on ....I just don't feel sorry for them, either. But here in the USA? If you spend 40 adult years and have nothing to show for...

"In most cases, wouldn’t the prudent thing to do would be to buy & pay to install a warrantied rebuilt transmission? Versus paying to rebuild one?" Well, prudence seldom enters the lives of many people....but regardless, whether it's a shop rebuild or a big-rebuilder rebuild, it costs money...

It's funny how modern engines last a long time because of machining and materials and blah blah blah but not once is oil mentioned. The oil of today is 1 billion times ahead of the oil of 1965. Oil, and EFI. Machining and materials are way back in the pack.

I gotta say, those rod bearings are not ok.... But....its likely you can do the basic rings and bearings bit and be ok. It doesn't look trashed.

They're cool as they're vintage but otherwise, its hard to get excited about a bent tube header. I also gotta think the four pipes laid in a flat row would really hog the space around the trans. Might be nearly impossible to reach the trans linkage, for instance.

Back in the 1600's, Samuel Pepys wrote something along the lines of "He that doth get a wench with child, then marry her, is no better than he that doth **** in his own hat, then clap it on his head."

There is cast steel, though I don't know it's been used for cranks ever. I remember very well back in the day discovering a 'new' Mopar in a junkyard or in some old lady's yard and popping the hood and letting your eyes fall on the engine only to have to say, "It has a 318...." It's the same...

The Bible clearly says "let he among us who is without sin cast the first crank"

A carb makes sense in this instance....you won't be using the vehicle enough to justify an EFI system.

MPG can be a fun pursuit. Pursuing MPG with a musclecar is a cringy pursuit.

About 75% of the stuff I do on engines doesn't need to be done. Actually, the entire engine doesn't qualify as a need....

In my case, I sprayed the oil at the Torrington bearing not because I think it needs a constant bath of oil but because it's at the center of the works. I think the oil will distribute outward from there. There's probably benefit in spraying oil at the lower gear, or the idler, since they're...

Here's the cam gear...I drilled 3 .062" holes (one every 120 degrees) to let some of the oil (hopefully) find its way via centrifugal force from the ID of the gear to the face of the teeth. I'm thinking the oil I spray at the bearing will then fling outwards until it hits the ID of the cam...

Here's the end result...I tapped the lifter galley for 9/16-18 then made an 'oiler' that threads in. It has a 1/4" blind hole down the middle, and a .028" hole that comes in from the side to spray oil out onto the cam gear bearing. There's no great way to 'clock' this so I fitted it such that...

Is it low compression because he is running a twin turbo setup with 22lbs of boost? :lol:

I'm thinking the lifter galley uses a plug behind the plate...right? It's been a long time since I looked at one so I don't recall. But one thing's for sure....with this particular gear drive plate, something has to block the galley besides the plate.