Tom, I have the pieces of the motor you need, timing cover, oil pick-up front plate etc. I assume you have a head and valve cover? I can bring them to LA this weekend if you can meet me at Compton Airport late tomorrow morning or tomorrow afternoon. I can bring the 258 manifolds too. I'm replying on the list since I don't think you check you other email very often. You can reply by email and tell me exactly what you need. Joe Fulton Home phone 831-758-4711 Cell: 831-261-4075 --- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote: > OK, UPS truck freight is pretty good. You can track > the package > online (not something I've ever been able to do with > other truck > freight) and signed up for email notification of > delivery which > went to my phone. > > (All mobile phones can receive, and send, email, no > charge > beyond a text message charge, if any. Since they > wanna > sell you fancy $$$ services it's not well > publicized. See > http://tinywords.com/about/mobile). > > I was shocked to see a bare, exposed short block > just sitting > on a 3' x 3' pallet, set properly on 4x4's, but held > down by > two pieces of plastic bandit. That's all! With a > sticker on > it. No plastic, no box, no nothin'. > > No scrapes, dents, holes-in-block. Didn't get tipped > over or > stacked upon. Shocking. > > > Anyways it's very pretty. The top deck is slightly > nicked up, > but it's oooold nicks. The exposed bores are very > nice, no rust > anywhere. The cam, timing gear, chain and motor > mount plate > (goes under the timing chain area) all there, as are > lifters > (they look like little pencil erasers :-) > > It looks like the deck was NOT resurfaced. I'll > later razor-blade > it, but I don't see any "recent" (inoperational > history terms) > of machining, whereas it's evident elsewhere. It's > likely that > 30 years in a warehouse it got nicked up, and may > have had > oiled paper over the bores. > > This summer I'll take it all to pieces, probably > have the block > tanked again (it's filled with dust), have a few > thoundandths > off the top (remove those nicks, and also flatness > check), mike > everything up and reassemble. Then I gotta find the > missing > pieces, timing cover, oil pan and pickup, etc. > > I'd rather build a whole second motor than > cannibalize the one > in the car... > > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list > _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list