I have to #^#^$# with it because it is an outwardly rusted mess and you would not believe the amount of trash (from rodents and insects) that are inside the engine. Also, the water passages are mostly plugged with rust scale because the engine was drained of coolant and left that way for probably decades. The block must be thourough cleaned and the only way to do that is complete disassembly. I will also installed hardened valve seats and possibly shave .125" off of head (requires recessing valve seats, etc) to raise compression on the anemic 216. Somebody has worked on the engine in the past and it may not be the original engine as the rocker arm oil feed tubing is copper and it is my understanding that the lines were steel originally.
Maybe in the 50's, counties did a better job at maintenance than they do today.
Nice you have the machines to do that.
