On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 13:18, Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The oil pan fastening system on the 195.6 is much more complex than the > later sixes. In fact I find it how to understand how one of these old > engines could be built quickly on an assembly line. The damper is archaic > too with that gasketed center piece. > > Yeah, it is odd, isn't it? Three intricate little pieces! And what a strange place to have an oil leak from, out the crank nose bolt. I reused the star stamping, but bought new rubber and cork from Galvin's. And for good measure, added a thin bead of Right Stuff. The oil pan, remarkably sat right as an assembly without a gasket. As Joe and Dave know, the oil pan bolts to the block in the usual way, but also to the vertical face of the timing chain enclosure. I threw away all the oil pan bolts, and replaced them with studs, blue-loctited in. I assembled it with Right Stuff, and used serrated nuts. IT. WILL. NOT. LEAK. I was worried about the pan then hitting the oil pickup but it's got 3/8" clearance, ensured with a 1/2" wide block of teflon I wired onto the pickup. The "plastic clip that everyone loses" was pre-lost on mine, so the right bonk on the oil pan would have sealed off the oil supply. Nice. I think I said, the engine leaked a lot of oil out the back, which I had assumed was the rear seal, but turned out to have been a seeping rear cam plug. There's a new one in there now of course, but when I put the rear shim plate on (whatever you call that thing) I am going to Right Stuff the block-to-plate area around that plug. Belt and suspenders. IT. WILL. NOT. LEAK. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list-amc-list.com/attachments/20100318/b4519108/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ AMC-list mailing list AMC-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://list.amc-list.com/listinfo.cgi/amc-list-amc-list.com