wayfastwhitey
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Here's the finished engine!
Fired it up last saturday and it sounded sweet! Ran into a couple of problems though. I had oil shooting out from between the pan and the gasket at the front of the motor. Took it apart and compared the new gasket (fel pro one piece) to my old gasket and notice the front part was half the thickness as my old one! Manufacturers defect I guess. Next problem was I had water seeping out of the studs! Apparently they machinist that put this thing together has never heard of thread sealer. Plus, he used the Cometic multi-layer steel gaskets. I know a lot of you have probably heard they are great, but I've had nothing but trouble with them. It was the same gasket that failed last year causing this rebuild. So, Sunday I pulled the heads off, put thread sealer on the studs, installed good ole Fel-Pro 1003 head gaskets, my old pan gasket, my new Hamburger pan, and tomorrow I'll set the intake and fire it up again!