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What isn't stock about the lifter/cam location and or valve train geomertry?
EDIT! Sorry I did not know it was a Ritter block. That explains alot! Good luck with it.
Everything I posted still applies to a STOCK block.
Putting rollers on a flat tappet cam will not tell you anything about alignment. Roller cam lobes (no taper) are made for the roller to align in the middle of the lobe. Flat tappet lifters align off to one side of the lobe (tapered)...
Having built will more than 100 engines from stock to full race back in the 60s to mid 90s never had I a wear problem in the valve train. (It won't sound right to other folks on here but I always broke them in with 140w GL6 gear lube.) That said, the few engine I have done recently do not have...
Disconnect the battery. With a mirror look at the back of the cluster and locate the voltage limiter. See if You can get your hand in to unplug it. If so You got it made in the shade. If not well.....
The voltage limiter and/or regulator limits the voltage to the Temp And Fuel gauges to a...
I can buy 50/50 for $12.
Or I can buy full strength for $15 and 1 gallon of distilled water for $2.
Mix them and have 2 gallon of 50/50 for $8.50 per.
But then I have always been cheap.
Challenger 340 made a good point about Ring Travel.
At piston TDC and BDC piston rings come to a dead stop and change direction. As they do this they flex up and down producing heat and also transferring more heat to the cylinder wall in that spot because they're stopped. This wears a little...
I am new here and hoping you fine folks can help me out on a (1) piston I need.
I have a 440 I built 35-40 years ago for a gentleman that after 20,000 + miles burnt a piston. (To much timing most likely.) I wound up with it 10 yrs ago and have now decided to put it back together in order to show...