My Engine Overhaul
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My Engine Overhaul
Started the teardown today. HOLY SMOKES is that intake manifold Heavy!!
Taped my gut back together.... Definately ain't my old Chevy.... bizarre intake.
BTW are the pushrods supposed to be curved? A couple of the lifters looks like the mice in there got hungry. Which might be explained by the fact that my camshaft "keeper" is broken and gone somewhere. I also see a bunch of chewed up pieces of something up in the heads.
My back is killing me and I'm gonna go get cleaned up a bit.... I'm spent.
Taped my gut back together.... Definately ain't my old Chevy.... bizarre intake.
BTW are the pushrods supposed to be curved? A couple of the lifters looks like the mice in there got hungry. Which might be explained by the fact that my camshaft "keeper" is broken and gone somewhere. I also see a bunch of chewed up pieces of something up in the heads.
My back is killing me and I'm gonna go get cleaned up a bit.... I'm spent.
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What engine is it you are workin on? I dunno about the rest of the guys here, but I have never known a curved pushrod to be anything but bad news. 
If anyone knows better I would like to know about that....
If anyone knows better I would like to know about that....
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Originally Posted by RidinNStyle54
What engine is it you are workin on? I dunno about the rest of the guys here, but I have never known a curved pushrod to be anything but bad news. If anyone knows better I would like to know about that....
If anyone knows better I would like to know about that....Yeah, I think it's bad...
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Doesn't sound good at all.
And yes those manifolds are very heavy. Try installing one under the hood it is a bear to align it by yourself. Hope yours is out of the truck.
Iv'e seen a couple of Aluminum intakes at the swap meet in Turlock and have close to buying one just to drop about fifty pounds.
Looks like you are in for a full overhaul.
Have fun
Jd
Doesn't sound good at all.
And yes those manifolds are very heavy. Try installing one under the hood it is a bear to align it by yourself. Hope yours is out of the truck.
Iv'e seen a couple of Aluminum intakes at the swap meet in Turlock and have close to buying one just to drop about fifty pounds.
Looks like you are in for a full overhaul.
Have fun
Jd
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Welcome aboard!
Don't get too comfy, just about everything on the 'ol FE weighs in on the heavy side (heads are next...). Nope, the push-rods should be straight, sounds like she was spent.
Good luck on the rebuild, check out my gallery, the replacement looks pretty close to the original.
--Mike
Don't get too comfy, just about everything on the 'ol FE weighs in on the heavy side (heads are next...). Nope, the push-rods should be straight, sounds like she was spent.
Good luck on the rebuild, check out my gallery, the replacement looks pretty close to the original.
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My guess is that when you adjusted the valves when you first installed the new timing chain everything was OK, but did you go back and re - adjust them when you got the chain right? I know some moron who shall remain nameless (not me not me) who did just that one time... it even ran fine until I, I mean HE twisted it one good time then blam blah sputter cough spit kathunka, repeat. LUCKILY all that happened was about seven of the sixteen pushrods were bent. Replaced those, adjusted valves like I, um HE was taught in second grade, and it still runs good today.
Where to go from here is all up to you. That sucker could be OK. Did you happen to check the compression on it before it died? Will be hard to do out of the truck. But, if you are like me, once you pop the heads off you might as well do it all. Bore it, new bearings, pistons, valve job, grind the crank, resize the rods, etc etc til you run outta money.
Is that the original engine? I see on your website you are considering swapping it out anyway. If so, you wanna sell / donate that engine to this moron I know?
Where to go from here is all up to you. That sucker could be OK. Did you happen to check the compression on it before it died? Will be hard to do out of the truck. But, if you are like me, once you pop the heads off you might as well do it all. Bore it, new bearings, pistons, valve job, grind the crank, resize the rods, etc etc til you run outta money.
Is that the original engine? I see on your website you are considering swapping it out anyway. If so, you wanna sell / donate that engine to this moron I know?
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A cardboard intake sounds pretty good to me right now... I had pretty decided to go all the way when I pulled it out of the truck... and the curved pushrod question was a tounge in check question... now if I can just find my left handed pushrod straightner.
I think that I am just gonna go for it and put in a little bigger cam and a 4bbl intake and carb.
I think that I am just gonna go for it and put in a little bigger cam and a 4bbl intake and carb.
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Now I'm REAL confused! I have not seen a 352 with adjustable valve lash. I thought all of the FE's were self adjusters. Except maybe the 390 Side Oilers that you never see. I think they were solid lifter jobs.
We were talking about a 352. Weren't we?
We were talking about a 352. Weren't we?
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I finally got it mostly disassembled. I can't get the cam out, it seems that there are a couple of journals that are boogered up and seem to be slightly larger than the bearings. Anyone got any ideas to get it out? I might have to go get a slide hammer or something.
I posted a couple of pics of the engine rebuild in my gallery.
I posted a couple of pics of the engine rebuild in my gallery.
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Most of the truck motors and the standard car line came with the non-adjustable rockers. You can however replace those with the factory style adjustables at any time, they were mostly found on the GT and big CI FE's.
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Ford390gashog is right. You should be able to just wigle that sucker out. I personaly would not go the slide hammer route. Maybe a dremel tool to grind down the high spots on the came. By the way it looks in your pictures that cam is shot anaway. So I would grind on it and save the block. If you go the slide hammer route you may nock loose a bearing or two and than you will have to fight them all the way out.
Good luck
jd
Good luck
jd
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I got the same motor and am almost ready to do the same with it to save a headache at the worst time..Keep that web page full of good tidbits I'm going to bookmark it BOL cant wait to hear good news...Redmanbob
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Originally Posted by jd_sylvia
Ford390gashog is right. You should be able to just wigle that sucker out. I personaly would not go the slide hammer route. Maybe a dremel tool to grind down the high spots on the came. By the way it looks in your pictures that cam is shot anaway. So I would grind on it and save the block. If you go the slide hammer route you may nock loose a bearing or two and than you will have to fight them all the way out.
Good luck
jd
Good luck
jd
