Hey Chuck,
Sounds to me you're just about down to fightin' trim weight! Towing all over
the
country, racing again whenever there's a race and now crawling around in the dog
house area of the lust bus.
How's about giving us all an update since you've lost your title to Crash as the
biggest Spridget driver? Sounds to me like you're feeling great and going to be
around a lot longer to watch and enjoy your son growing up.
The best, Paul A.
Charles Christ wrote:
> well today it was time to put the trusty old "lust bus" to an exploratory
> engine disassembly! 220,000 miles on it since it was built and that was at
> 117,000 on the odometer.
> it had less than 15lbs of oil pressure at idle with 20W-50W oil. GM
> reccomends an idle pressure of 19-20 lbs(hot). so it was time to do
> something before it broke something from low oil pressure.
> well it's time to do a bunch-o-stuff!
> mains, rods, timing chain and gears, cam, lifters, and disassembly and
> cleaning of the heads and new valve seals.
> i'll be done by week's end! i'm doing this with the block in the van.
> *rah*-*rah*-*rah*
> gotta be done before going to race at the glen! so i need a week of street
> time running before towing to the track in case of any "special" problems
> that might arise!.
> i'm down to removing lifters, cam, heads and intake. whew! what a
> day............
> BTW! after towing to putnam park west of indy and back to cincinati then
> home 1,500 mile round trip it only used half a quart of oil with that kind
> of mileage on it! i'd say that this makes a good commercial for regular
> oil changes!
>
> chuck.
> tomorrow's another day......(i'm sore right now!)
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