Still in the beginning stages of getting this engine running, and I decided to give it a bit of a cleaning today. I soaked it down with degreaser and when I hosed it off I found an old weld running the length of the block.
Other than possibly leaking oil or coolant if the weld is not sound, is there anything else I should know/worry about? Should I just pull this lump and make a coffee table out of it?
It appears to be a (yellow?) 59-62 261 out of a Canadian Pontiac car, has a carb from a 235 and bypass oil filtration.
I kind of like it because although it's not original, it's the way this truck was when I was a kid, so if it's no big deal with the weld I'll keep working to get it going. If it's going to be a big waste of time, I'd like to hear that opinion too.
Down the road, maybe in a few years, I'd like to get a bit more power out of it with an intake and headers, but mostly I'm looking for something that's reliable that I can drive to the lumber yard, the dump, and stuff like that.
My phone had a hard time focusing on the weld, but here are a couple of the better shots:
https://flic.kr/p/weLcMghttps://flic.kr/p/vX9vPGThanks,
Grandpa's Dump Truck
