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missing linc said:
Well it's finally gotten to spring here, been in the 60's for the last week or two, put the snowblower away last weekend, got the Ventura out of hibernation too, hadn't run since last October, fired right up. Spent yesterday getting the lawnmower going and mowed the front lawn, then spent a couple hours trying to determine if either set of heads I have will be useable in their current state, and that's a resounding NO, my 340X heads need to be completely stripped and re-done, all the guides are fubared, and springs are rusty The 360 heads have broken bolt issues, including one that had been drilled out sometime in the past, is now oversize, and on a weird angle. Oh, did I mention it's one of the ones in a water jacket too? Was totally grumpy after that and spent the evening watching movies.
Today I took my dogs for a good long run, then decided that the Ventura needed to have last year's fuel burned off, so the wife and I took it out and went for a good long drive, racked up about 150 miles, burned maybe 1/3 of the tank. Damn that old car runs nice, floats along nice and smooth, even at 75 to 80 mph, it just hugs the road.
I'm going to have to see about getting the X heads done, or try and find a good used set, got a buddy looking around for me, have considered selling the whole damned lot already, or perhaps I need to take a year off and see what I can find.
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My neighbor has a complete 68 340 with X heads that I been trying to buy from him and in great shape. If he ever decides to sell it I'll let you know.
 
Here's an idea of what I'm up against. Almost as hard as running a wire through a decklid.
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Fred Scigliano said:
OK gotcha I'll pick some up.
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Some farmers call it haywire ,funny story when I was in school as an apprentice the tool crib guy would not give us mechanic wire we had to call it haywire,because we were not mechanics ,he was a funny guy !
 
missing linc said:
Well it's finally gotten to spring here, been in the 60's for the last week or two, put the snowblower away last weekend, got the Ventura out of hibernation too, hadn't run since last October, fired right up. Spent yesterday getting the lawnmower going and mowed the front lawn, then spent a couple hours trying to determine if either set of heads I have will be useable in their current state, and that's a resounding NO, my 340X heads need to be completely stripped and re-done, all the guides are fubared, and springs are rusty The 360 heads have broken bolt issues, including one that had been drilled out sometime in the past, is now oversize, and on a weird angle. Oh, did I mention it's one of the ones in a water jacket too? Was totally grumpy after that and spent the evening watching movies.
Today I took my dogs for a good long run, then decided that the Ventura needed to have last year's fuel burned off, so the wife and I took it out and went for a good long drive, racked up about 150 miles, burned maybe 1/3 of the tank. Damn that old car runs nice, floats along nice and smooth, even at 75 to 80 mph, it just hugs the road.
I'm going to have to see about getting the X heads done, or try and find a good used set, got a buddy looking around for me, have considered selling the whole damned lot already, or perhaps I need to take a year off and see what I can find.
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I like those Venturas.
 
missing linc said:
Have you tried using a coat hanger or length of wire to feed it through? I did that on my '70, not many people expect an old car like that to have power trunk release, it's a cool feature!
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I looked for a coat hanger in my closet but all plastic ones.
 
Week got off to bad start, wife took our old guy, Dunham to the vet on Monday, he's lost a lot of weight recently, about 12 lbs in the past 6 weeks or so, he still eats as normal, gets the same amount of exercise, so we were concerned about him. The vet did some blood work and found his liver enzymes were more than 6 times higher than normal, along with some other issues, she believes that he has mass on his liver, and another on his adrenal gland. Prognosis is not very good, the vet expects he has about 6 months. My wife was absolutely devastated, he's her buddy, we've had him from 10 weeks old, and wherever she is, he's almost guaranteed to be there. He sleeps beside her most nights, occasionally he will sleep near me but there's no doubt he's attached to her, and she to him, I really am not looking forward to losing him, besides how upset I will be, I know that she will be totally crushed. She talked with her best friend a couple times this week, and is taking her advice to heart, that being to enjoy every day that we have with him, and not focus on the eventuality of his passing, we know it's inevitable, regardless of the diagnosis. Still sucks no matter how you look at it.
 
missing linc said:
Week got off to bad start, wife took our old guy, Dunham to the vet on Monday, he's lost a lot of weight recently, about 12 lbs in the past 6 weeks or so, he still eats as normal, gets the same amount of exercise, so we were concerned about him. The vet did some blood work and found his liver enzymes were more than 6 times higher than normal, along with some other issues, she believes that he has mass on his liver, and another on his adrenal gland. Prognosis is not very good, the vet expects he has about 6 months. My wife was absolutely devastated, he's her buddy, we've had him from 10 weeks old, and wherever she is, he's almost guaranteed to be there. He sleeps beside her most nights, occasionally he will sleep near me but there's no doubt he's attached to her, and she to him, I really am not looking forward to losing him, besides how upset I will be, I know that she will be totally crushed. She talked with her best friend a couple times this week, and is taking her advice to heart, that being to enjoy every day that we have with him, and not focus on the eventuality of his passing, we know it's inevitable, regardless of the diagnosis. Still sucks no matter how you look at it.
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Hate to loose a dog it hurts to much. Sorry to here that.
 
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