Hello Everybody - My name is Duff. This is the first time I've introduced myself but this site has helped me tremendously for many years. So I'd like to thank everyone for helping my brother and me put together the Duster you see in the pictures. It was his when he was in his late teens and his twenties. At some point it got a little ragged out so he quit driving but never sold it. Our parents, brothers, brothers girlfriends, cousins, uncles, friends and neighbors all let him store it at their place at one time or another since he moved to the city and parking is scarce. I was the last one on the list to get the question "Mind if I keep the Duster at your place for a while?" This was in 2003 and that's when we decided to let's get her running, make the turn signals work again, and such. Well it didn't work out that way, Today, 7 years, a zillion dollars, lost relationships, blood, sweat, and tears, we were ready to take her on a 20 mile trip over to show mom. (Dad passed away in November). We did nearly everything ourselves, everything down to bare metal, body work painting, interior, all except we bought a rebuilt 340 off of ebay. Before heading to mom's we decided a quick burn out was in order. So we got away from the houses and lit her up, it felt wonderful, until...... she started missing, the temperature climbed, and white smoke filled the air behind us and under the hood. We managed to coast her back to the driveway. We opened the hood and there appeared what looked like oil and anti freeze everywhere. Upon further investigation we found out that on this fine spring day a freeze plug had popped out of the passenger side of the block. But that didn't explain the oil??? We pulled all the plugs and did a compression check, two adjacent cylinders (3,5) are under 50. The opposite two (4,6) are 120, with the remaining 4 between 152 and 160. It looked like the oil we saw may have been coming out of the valve cover breather but we're not for sure.
Sorry for the long post but writing it kept me from banging my head against the wall. Suggestion on what I should do next with the motor are welcomed.
Sorry for the long post but writing it kept me from banging my head against the wall. Suggestion on what I should do next with the motor are welcomed.
