hkestes41 Posted July 1, 2011 Report Posted July 1, 2011 As I had posted earlier, I blew up my 218 on the way home from Joplin last month. Had a "new" 230 on the engine stand but work schedule and family stuff has slowed the process. Finally set it in place yesterday. Should have it fired and running this weekend. While I had everything out I took the opportunity to swap my very loose steering box with a good unit I picked up from Knighhawk quite a while back and a general sprucing up of the engine compartment. I say "new" as the engine was rebuilt at some point not long before I purchased it. Tore it down and everything looked extremely clean inside and checked out OK. There was no sludge build up at all and the cylinders / bearings were all in good shape. The motor was pulled from a 57 Plymouth that a guy in Houston purchased and put a 360 in. Anyway it was bored 30 over and has been balanced as evidenced by the massaging of the crank counterweights and rods. Not a bad deal for $150 bucks with the transmission and A/C pump attached. Still need to take care of a few small details like looms for the plug wires and throttle linkage etc. Will update the progress once I have it running. Quote
P-12 Tommy Posted July 2, 2011 Report Posted July 2, 2011 I betcha that's gonna run real nice! Nice job! Tom Quote
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