Re: [Amc-list] old rebuilt 195.6 ohv arrived

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That's way cool!
I'd go for a new set of rings while it's apart.
While those ones are new, they've been squeezed in those bores for a VERY LONG TIME.

Have fun!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

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From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> 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...
> 
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