Update:
There was a big car show in town today so I drove the 49 over and checked it out. There were 3 Stovebolts being shown, 2 were rat rods and the other was a beautiful trailer queen, all had SBC's. There wasn't any 6 banger parts to be found. After an hr or so I headed back to the ponderosa.
Fired the wood stove up and got to spend some quality time on the engine.
Dropped the pan, added a alittle red thread locker to the 2 screws and installed that breather oil baffle. There was just enough room to install it around the cam.
With that done, installed the pan w/new gaskets and filled it w/5qts of Brad Penn 30w breakin oil.
The correct pushrods finally arrived on Thursday so they and the the rocker shaft/arms got installed.
Using the positions of the lifters and a ty-rap inserted in the cylinder(s), I adjusted the valves 0.006 intake and .016 exhaust.
With the side cover still off I put a long screwdriver tang in a drill, set it to rotate clockwise then spun the oil pump. It pumped up to 30 psi pretty quickly and once I saw some oil trickle out of the rockers, the side cover was installed. Once the gasket sealer sets up for a day or two I'm going to re-run the oil pressure test, I want to see full oiling and make sure theres no leaks.
Installed the harmonic balance and decided to go back w/the stock draft tube setup and installed it.
Installed the Fenton headers and stock intake manifold but ran into a situation with the Fenton headers mounting points not lining up equally with the stock intakes mounting points.
I was able to address all but one. I'm either going to o grind alittle off one corner of the clamp or make up a new one. I'm researching that.
Getting close....
Oil Baffle oil test setup pic pic pic
