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Old 20-08-20, 14:06
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Bravo! Old Boy.
Coming along nicely.
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Old 23-08-20, 14:05
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Its a good thing..

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Old 23-08-20, 17:11
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Old 24-08-20, 00:39
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Fantastic Tony, what a great moment, well done!
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Old 24-08-20, 00:46
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Old 24-08-20, 11:52
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Thanks Chaps - very kind words (and Emojis )

I do have a confession to make - I did make one huge blunder.

I didn't put any sort of sealant on the head studs when I put them in.

As a result I had a water fountain running out of all the head nuts.



So.... off with the heads again and remove, clean and refit all 48 of them.

I used a sealant I luckily already had. I previously used it to seal the LPG lines on my ute.
It was expensive from memory, but it is the bee's knees.
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Old 24-08-20, 12:23
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Old 24-08-20, 23:15
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Old 25-08-20, 02:52
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Kind of hypnotic watching those belts as it runs.
Well done mate. Great to see the project progressing.
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Old 25-08-20, 13:35
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Thanks Ryan

Never get tired of firing a flat head V8 up. I agree with you, there is something special just watching it while its running.

Brief update,

First picture shows how i primed the engine lubrication system. Oil pressure took a little while. But is now at 50 to 60 PSI, so very happy about that.

Timing was very advanced so I have adjusted it back, 5 degrees before TDC. Advance as it revs up working fine.

Carbie is flooding so I'll rip it off and sort it out.

When I pulled the heads off to do the head studs, I realised just how much scale and crap was in them. I decided to clean them using hydrochloric acid.

It did an amazing job!!. I was stunned at how much crap came out.
What was good was just how clean they were after about 12 hours.
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Finally got a bit of undisturbed time in the shed.
Fooling around with instrument cluster.
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