Re: Beautiful day here today!! My 70 Hornet project

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

The easiest solution I've seen for the rear cover bolt was one I found at a
wreckers. Someone has welded another short bolt to the valve cover bolt so that
the head just topped the valve cover. Easy access and the original bolt still
held the cover. 
 
Ken Ames

Quoting Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>:

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> I had a big hassle with the cast aluminum valve cover for the 1983
> 258. It fits the engine just fine, but it's too tall, and clunks
> into the overlap seam in the Hornet firewall. There is NO WAY to
> fit a 1980's inline sixes into the 1970 chassis as-is with this
> valve cover. There's also no way at all to get at the rear screw,
> tough enough on a pre-1972 factory six installation.
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> But, umm, there's no way to get at the bolt at the back of the
> valve cover -- even with a socket head bolt and a ball-end allen
> wrench. I finally worked a solution: removing the wiper motor and
> drilling a 3/8" hole in the floor of the cowl area for the allen
> wrench.
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> Now to get the valve cover on or off, all I have to do is:
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> * unbolt the rear trans mount
> * jack the trans tail until it hits the chassis
> * remove the wiper motor
> * insert allen wrench into hole
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> Umm, yeah, with all that a 1983 258 "just drops in" to the 1970
> Hornet.  Well it's in, at least, solidly and cleanly, soon on the
> road!
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