{"id":88,"date":"2010-08-29T19:56:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T00:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-06-10T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T01:00:15","slug":"engine-teardown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/engine-teardown\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine teardown"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next day, I wheeled the engine outside and rinsed it all off, so I could begin taking it all apart.\u00a0 Everything was going well until it was time to pull the distributor – with the engine being seized nothing would rotate, along with the retainer and cam gear not moving, so getting the dizzy out was a major PITA.\u00a0 Ended up breaking the nylon timing gear and forcing the distributor out.\u00a0 With the heads off, it was very easy to see why the engine was siezed – the #4 and #8 cylinders had rusted into place – #4 being the worse of the two.\u00a0 After I flipped the engine over and removed the oil pan, I noticed that the previous owners had tried to out-do the Duke Boys… the oil pan had been smashed in from what I’m guessing was some ‘air time.’\u00a0 It was so bad that the pick-up on the oil pump had been damaged as well – no wonder the engine had seized… with the oil pan smashed up against the oil pump pick-up, it starved for oil and that was that.\u00a0 This poor car had been abused and basically thrown away and left to rot.\u00a0 Once I pulled all the bearing caps off the connecting rods, I was able to slip out the rest of the pistons and conn-rods without hassle, along with the crank, which fortunately looked really good.\u00a0 The #4 & #8 pistons had to be coaxed out with a half can of PB Blaster and a BFH, revealing some scarring on the cylinder walls.\u00a0 Hopefully, the machine shop can still work with it, either by boring or sleeving the cylinders.<\/p>\n

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It’s a good thing I’m not planning on restoring this car to absolute stock conditions… this engine’s going to get some performance goodies put back in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next day, I wheeled the engine outside and rinsed it all off, so I could begin taking it all apart.\u00a0 Everything was going well until it was time to pull the distributor – with the engine being seized nothing would rotate, along with the retainer and cam gear not moving, so getting the dizzy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-mach1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}