Originally Posted by terrapin88

Hey Schex3x, I get a lot of smiles from women who read that sticker. Go figure? lol

Thanks for the pat on the back guys-

I'm more of a liquor guy but if I drank the amount of beers it took I'd either be passed or still pissing. Not including the time at the machine shop, I could have had this done in a weekend, but I milked it. I worked on it for a few hours here and there when I had time.

Biggest pita I think aside from getting the cement like baked on gaskets off was getting the rear wheel back on with the spacers properly aligned.

The cam swap was easy as pie. I wouldn't think twice about swapping out other cams to try. If anyone is considering it, go for it.

I did get a little stumped when adjusting the pushrods. I put in new lifters and though I tried to manually get them to suck up some oil, I didn't do very well. I kept adjusting the rods lower and lower till they wouldn't move, and come back in 20 mins thinking the lifters had bled down. I still couldn't spin the rods with my fingers. I took them out and put them back 3 times with the same problem. It wasn't till I walked over and picked up one of the old lifters still pull of oil and tried to depress it with a rod that I realized my new ones must be bone dry and I was actually adjusting the depressing the new lifters all the way down. Glad I thought about that before I tried starting it. Duh dumb ***.

I can't think of anything now that was a big deal or hard to deal with. I will say if you have your heads off and are looking to pull the springs and valves, don't bother with Autozone or Advanced Auto's spring depressor tool. Junk. I bent them. I went to my indy and he lent me a real tool and I had them off in minutes.

Same deal with the rental piston ring compressor tools. All they had were the big adjustable spring types and they sucked. I took the pistons off and put the cylinders upside down on my bench and slid the piston down into them one ring at a time. I used a couple of FMJ 30.06 cartridges to gently push the rings in the grooves as I worked them into the cylinders. I tried .308 cartridges first but they were too short.