donsrods
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The last few days my Son Dan and I have been working hard to get his rpu back together with the new motor and we have it to the point where we are going to try to fire it up today when he gets home from work.
It has been torn down since about last May when we ran into a problem with the first motor, we scored a couple of cylinders when the oil ring expanders broke and rather than sleeve that block we bought a new block and had it machined. While we were at it he added a set of Olds 442 "C" heads that we had reworked, had the whole thing balanced, and had the transmission checked over for a little leak we had in the front. He also changed the color of the motor from black to a gold that is closer to what the old Olds engines had.
Hopefully we will have a video to post later on of it running, but in the meantime here are a couple of pictures of where it is right now.
Don
Here is a video of it running with the first motor (RIP)
And here is how it looks with the new motor.
It has been torn down since about last May when we ran into a problem with the first motor, we scored a couple of cylinders when the oil ring expanders broke and rather than sleeve that block we bought a new block and had it machined. While we were at it he added a set of Olds 442 "C" heads that we had reworked, had the whole thing balanced, and had the transmission checked over for a little leak we had in the front. He also changed the color of the motor from black to a gold that is closer to what the old Olds engines had.
Hopefully we will have a video to post later on of it running, but in the meantime here are a couple of pictures of where it is right now.
Don
Here is a video of it running with the first motor (RIP)
And here is how it looks with the new motor.
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