75 Highboy Resto-Mod Build
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But short of the other brutal methods mentioned the crank has zero chance coming out with them in especially without possibly scoring the bearing surface on the crank ..
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Yeah that's what I was afraid of. I'll try it again in a few weeks when I have time.
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Finally got around to busting this thing loose last night. Had to chop all of the rods and then punch out all of the pistons, and that was the most time consuming part. It took me about 4 hours to bang them all out. The crank is in great shape all the way around and the cylinders look good as well. Going to take a trip to the machine shop in a few weeks.
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Today I finally found a drivers side fender liner for this thing. I could not for the life of me find one at any of my salvage yards. This was in a truck at the farm I was working on and I was told I could have it.
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Engine rebuild is now underway. First time pulling an engine for me and I was doing it by myself so it took about 8 hours working slow and bagging and tagging everything. I'll be tearing down the block and taking it to the machine shop this afternoon or first thing in the morning
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It's all metal, I assume it's a bearing but I haven't gotten the block torn down far enough to confirm. I know it's not a rod bearing
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Well Wednesday I finished breaking down my 460 and got it taken to the machine shop. Yesterday and today I spent installing my American Autowire wiring harness from JBG and I will say I am very pleased with it. It's super straight forward, there has only been a few minor things that stumped me, but they were easily figured out. If everything works as well as install has gone I'll say it was well worth the money.
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$650 or so IIRC, I can't remember, I actually got it about 6 months ago and just now got around to doing it lol