Re: [AMC-list] wow, 401 isnt very good

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

50/50 mix atf and acetone, start pouring it over everything and down into the cylinders etc.
You may be surprised at how much or how little damage there actually is.
Who knows?

I'd put the block in one of those masonry mixing tubs from Hdepot or Lowes
and just keep spraying it down whenever I thought about it.

That's the plan with the 327 in my flood car.

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- das24rules@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: das24rules@xxxxxxxxx
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 9:33:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] wow, 401 isnt very good
>
> ok, so i had about 10 min. this evening. i pulled the intake, valve
> cover, and
> head. rat nest between intake and pan gasket... under pan gasket is
> YEARS
> worth of mouse crap and nesting stuff. several bent pushrods, i can
> see
> lifters that have fallen down laying ontop of the cam. i pulled the
> right
> head off, 1 out of 4 cylinders look ok. the others are BAD rusty. head
> number
> is 3220502-2. there is also a "77" stamp in there. TALK ABOUT HUGE
> CYLINDERS!!!! wow. so, as i get time, i will strip it down. then, when
> i get
> little money here and there, ill do machine work. would someone just
> win the
> big powerball, and give me a few thousand to build this 401, and get
> a
> serious built 5spd that has o/d to put in casper?? 
> 
> 
> dave stohler
> www.picasaweb.google.com/das24rules
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