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Re: 70 Engine Rebuild Status

To: Geoffrey Gallaway <geoffeg@sloth.org>
Subject: Re: 70 Engine Rebuild Status
From: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <Lundgren@iname.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:16:20 -0700 (MST)
I'd do the clutch anyway a few thousand miles somewhere else might be nice.  

Do they make sleves for the cylinder walls for these blocks?  If so you might 
not need a new block.  

Mild performance cams are pretty cheap from NW Import.

I would do they chain and tensioner as well.  Since you are in it this far...

The Engine was a maroon originally.  (Or as the story goes, "Some Bloody Red!")



On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Geoffrey Gallaway wrote:

> Well, I took the engine (and transmission) out of the MG on saturday with
> the great help of an experienced person. The pistons, rods, valves and
> everything look original (never been replaced). All four pistons had
> broken rings and one had a huge gouge in the cylinder wall where a
> retaining ring flew or popped of and ripped the wall up. I just hope that
> when the shop bores the cylinders out they dont find the gouge goes beyond
> the .060 mark (as thats the biggest piston and rings sizes i know of), if
> they do I guess I need a new block. The camshaft looks elegant, I still
> need to check the rods for wear. I also broke the distributor guide ring
> during removal but the guy who helped me has an extra. The clutch looks
> perfect so that has been replaced by the DPO. 
> 
> Non-Engine related problems I discovered:
> 
> * The hand brake doesn't move, up or down, whats broken and where to cause
> that?
> * What color to paint everything, what color was it (if it was) originally?
> * Should I change the chain and tensioner?
> * Should I change the rod bolts as the originals might have stretch?
> * Bronze or standard valve guides?
> 
> Geoff
> 
> -- 
> Geoffrey Gallaway || The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
> geoffeg@sloth.org ||
> D e v o r z h u n ||                          -- Fortune Cookie
> 
> 


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