Lane..
How goes the tranny woes?
I sucessfully pulled my engine this weekend, and it is all mounted up
on an engine stand ready to go. Yahoo!
Did you like your machine shop? Where did you go? I need to find a
place locally which is familiar with B engines.
Also, I saw a 69 GT for sale locally - Red with wire wheels, and
a roadster parts car to boot for ~$4500..
Dave
(Locally is Vancouver, WA for others on the net.)
Lane Rollins wrote:
> I'm not sure that $4000 is unreasonable. It all depends on what is
> happening. Are you just freshing the engine or are you doing a quality
> rebuild? My machine shop bill was over $1600, and I don't think I was taken
> for any ride. New pistons, new cam, bored +.020, balanced, new oil pump,
> quality gasket sets, bearings. Why did I get some of this stuff from the
> machine shop? If I have a problem with any of the parts I can take it back
> to them, no finger pointing from one supplier to the next. The machine shop
> couldn't get new driver gears for the oil pump & distributor. If I remeber
> right those alone cost me over $200. I probably could have survived with
> the old parts, they were worn but usable, but I don't want to have to take
> the motor apart again anytime in the near future. Also why would you put
> worn gears against a brand new cam. If done right you should easly be able
> to get another 100,000 miles out of the motor without any work to the
> internals. The new motor in the B is great, 50lbs oils presure at a hot
> idle over 70 at speed, it doesn't leak any oil. Yes you heard me, none,
> nada, not a drop. I get a little out of the tranny, but that's coming
> around the drain plug, I was brain dead and didn't put any teflon on the
> plug. Bottom line if you plan on keeping the car for some time don't cheese
> on the rebuild. I was burned by a reground cam on my 1600 motor so I'm back
> to pulling it apart.
>
> Lane
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