Dropped the crank and flywheel off at Custom Cranks last Monday, hope to hear good news next week.
He's got a full engine machine shop. He's only got a small sign on the road and he's on the ground floor of a multi tenant building down around on the back side. I've been past him 100's of times and never knew there was an engine machine shop there.
There were racks of refinished cranks hanging along a couple walls and many engine heads and blocks of various configs awaiting work and awaiting picked up. Said he was very busy.
If all goes well I should be able to order the innards soon. Just need to know what oversize bearings I'll need.
He had an AD 1 ton w/dual rear wheels sitting in his lot. The body didn't look too bad except someone cut and modified the headlights to dual square late model chevy type. The cutting looked good but the "look" didn't..... No bed. It had a 235 in it. Said it would turn but hasn't tried to start it. Said he wanted $1K for it
, told him I had enough projects for now.....
Received some hi temp engine paint, GM Blue, gray and satin black.
Finally got those manifolds split. 2 of the 4 bolts just didn't want to come out.
The exhaust manifold looks like it's been welded near the front #1 cyl, or it could be a casting flaw or both.
Since I'm going to go w/Fenton headers I'm not concerned w/it.
There was alot of built up soot around the runner to #1 cyl that was covering up that flaw...
Wire wheeled, soaked and scrubbed the intake manifold clean and it's now got a couple nice finish coats of gray coloring to it.
The valve cover, side cover and timing gear cover is going to get a nice fresh coat of Blue Flame blue very soon.
Funny, the 216 nearly got 13 mpg on the last tank full and it's been running pretty good lately. It must know something's going on
Dave
