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I tweeked my back somehow so progress is slow but the liners are back in the block. I set the shims in place with a dab of hylomar

Liners in

Lowest

Tallest

Heads are on and the engine baking


The teenager suggested this looked like an outside project and brought me a hose.

Heads are retorqued and kind of holding 30 psi.....but it's important to remember the leak test is for information only this time around so I know what kind and how much stop leak to use....cuz it's getting to be time to drive.

Amazing.

That might be an overstatement....this was by far not the best leak test I've done, it lost 5psi in 1 hour. ......but luckily it's for information only. Now I know I should start with straight water and a mix of blue devil and maybe bars leaks for leaks anywhere other than into the cylinders. I'm just so do playing this game and last time it was fine after the blue devil other than me buggering valves cylinder 12 and melting drop gears so I'm pretty sure it will be fine again.

I've got a few sad looking rod bearings, again so clearly I did sad job cleaning the crank....cleaning it properly is the next project.

I discussed an advance with lana to fund a quick assembly and it was not rejected ...the stairs get refinished AFTER the ferrari runs so......

It makes me genuinely happy to see your floor is raw concrete.

sjd

I think that a lot of us are impressed with the effort, even when you're not impressed with the results.

I drilled and extracted all the plugs from the crank. Didn't really see and gick while I was working but now I'll know its clean. for new plugs I thought I'd just buy aluminum bolts but the ones I found are like $4 each so I guess I'll make something. The extractor i made from a dowel pin. I cleaned the oil passages in the block already, but I'll clean up the feed to the crank again just to be sure.

I like it.
I mean I like you doing it. I dislike doing the crank plugs.

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Wade Williams
Master Ferrari Tech
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Very little came out, but it's more than zero and know I know it clean. I found the ferrari plugs but the guy only had 9 and ferrari's warehouse is closed until September so can't get more until then. Amazon had 8mm alum rod I can have tomorrow so I'll just make plugs and move on I guess and save enough to buy a couple rod bearings.