The latest in the rebuild story. Back main bearing cap had suffered damage to the oil return tube and was losing thrust surface on the babbit. Both can be remedied with some epoxy. Some one has tried brazing the tube but the dis-similar metals said no to that fix. Lifters and cam have both seen better days and cannot be reused. Will opt for new adjustable lifters and a touring grind cam. The cam is so worn that it is not even useable for a core to exchange, so Walt will give me one that I can trade in.
Next pics show block after major clean up. Exhaust valves had been leaking so long that they had eaten away the cast iron around the seats. New seats will be installed to fix this. Where the pistons sat dead in the cylinder for so may years they pitted it pretty badly on one. Hoping it will hone out and be useable. Two of the head studs had been stripped out. One I was able to drill to the next larger size and tap for a oversized stud. The other one was already larger than oversize and will require a cast iron plug to be installed and then drilled and tapped to original 1/2" 13tpi. Flywheel is at the machine shop losing 32 pounds of unneeded weight. I had crankshaft counter weights waterjet cut this week to balance the crank and Mike and I found a nice late model V-8 pressure plate and clutch to match up to the lightened flyweel.
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