Gimme a little bit to respond. I'm all choked up from the flood of emotions I'm felling.

 

Rich, that's pretty slick! I gotta go to Brookhaven tomorrow and they've got a Horrible Freight store there. I'll pick up one of those blow guns. I can see me using that often.

 

I seen that on another post and thought that is AWESOME cheap and easy. Ok just do not put little dart tips in there and set up a target board or be shooting at empties. Kinda like holding back the safety lever back on a roofing gun. Pew Pew Pew.

 

Real Horse Power! Horse pull at Warren County Fair.

 

Red, I bet that was a fun evening. Draft horses are amazing. I wish you had cropped out "Mr. Mullet" though.

 

I already do that with the air guns scattered throughout the Bullet Room. Had a dart board in there for a while, but it got destroyed on a dare.

 

Love to go to the horse pull Last year was out because of Covid. It should be coming up in August. We'll see? The Wife and I go every year. It's big here. The Amish bring their teams too.
You two , you and your gal, since you both are on the injured reserve, make your way up here and we'll go.

 

No surprise here. One for sure fracture, one possible. Middle phalanx on #3 toe is fractured but not displaced. And possible broken proximal phalanx on same toe, no displacement. Not much to do for it, just don't do anything to make it worse.

I was more interested in the names of the bones. They named toe bones after ancient military attack formations. I think I'll give all my toes more personable military names. I'll call the broke and useless toe, "Milley". Big toe on my right foot shall hence forth be known as "Patton".

 

Gives new meaning to shoving your foot up someone's ****, don't it? To think that phrase dates back at least as far as Caesar. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Good thing you didn't tip a Lunati cam over on your foot. Then we'd be sending in a guy with a mop and bucket to clean you off the floor, lol.

 

I got done tractoring, then limped myself out to the shop and installed the crankshaft. Everything went perfectly. My friend couldn't come over this evening, so I set the crankshaft in the block by myself. My paranoid gene talked me into installing the old bearings in the block, and doing a couple of rehearsal installs with the old crankshaft. It wasn't quite as easy as installing a 302 crankshaft, but it was manageable. The new crankshaft is heavier, but it's kinda like the difference between lifting a 20 year old hippopotamus, vs a 21 year old hippopotamus. "Ole toe breaker" can be seen in the last photo.

 

Hey Mike,
You definitely got skin in the game now . That is, hands down, one beautiful hunk of metal. How you getting around my friend ? How's your Gal getting around ?
Hopefully the pain is not to unbearable. I'm required to say "Go easy". Don't over due it and fill a cooler with ice and stick your foot in there along with your beer. You and your lady can share it if you use a big enough cooler.
At least with the crank in the motor it can't ambush you anymore..

 

What you stood it back up on end...you are just asking for it aren't you? The rest is looking good, hang in there ya ol dang near barefoot loon.

 

Thanks guys. I'm not in any pain. Not limping either. I suppose if I had nerves in that toe, it'd probably hurt. It just feels like a little pressure. I'll be ok. I stood that old crank back up to demonstrate my defiance. I'll definitely lay it down before Scrappy, Patches, Baby, or Buck go in the shop.

I think I'll go out to the shop and install # 1 piston and lifters so I can check ICL.

 

I got #1 piston temporarily installed for deck height & clearance checking. That piston is .018" below deck. Hopefully the decks were squared properly, and all the pistons will be the same. Anyway, with that piece of information, I can now confirm actual deck height, which by my math is now 10.313" after machining the decks. Supposedly, 460's had three different deck heights, increasing a few thousandths each time in order to lower compression for the emissions ****'s. My block is a 1971 block, which should have had a 10.310" deck height. However, the engine was in a 1974 Thunderbird, which supposedly had a 10.322" deck height. Ford must have kept un-machined castings from 1971, then machined them for 1974 specs. WHO CARES, right?

And now I know what thickness head gaskets I need in order to hit my static compression ratio target. I was gonna put the degree wheel on the crank and check camshaft ICL, but I'm a little tired. Save that for tomorrow.

If you haven't had the pleasure of installing Spirolox, you're in for at least a little bit of frustration when you first start. As hard as they were to get in, I figured removing them would be damn near impossible. Turns out they're easier to remove than they are to install. Why did I remove them, you ask? Well, because my dumb a$$ installed the rod 180 degrees off the first time. Oh, and to make Spirolox even more fun, SRP pistons require TWO on each end. That was a special kind of torture. But I figured it out during the switcharoo. It's fairly easy once the light bulb lights up.

 

Got the camshaft degree'd. I won't be able to confirm this until all the pistons are installed, but it looks like with a .035" head gasket, I can make 9.9:1 static compression, and 7.5:1 dynamic compression. Easy pump gas engine.