What did you do today....other than work on your car!?
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Sounds great!!! What time, I'll bring anything else needed, including my appetite!!! LOL
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Looks like the timing chain doesn't have any slack.....
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Well, it’s been abandoned for the better part of 10 years. All in the same state as when the owner died. Trying my best to get the family to let me help more to find everything new homes, but it hasn’t been easy. I’ll keep plugging away tho, there’s tons of great stuff there, all stuck in time!
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I had to cut it off with a die grinder.
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Been down that road before.....usually not worth the effort. Are the pistons still in it? Usually those are the hardest to get out if it's been sitting for so long. Might try to eat away some of the rust before going much further to see if things will be able to be moved.
Yep, it was complete. I’m very tenacious, and I will get it all apart, and I’ll send it over to the machine shop to be checked over. I love a hood challenge, it took me almost a year to free up another 340 that I now have built as a stroker for my wife’s car.
Don't think honey hole isn't where it came from.
Clean it up and make a coffee table out of it for a rec room.
I will save it. And I’ll post it here when it is.
When all else fails, it's a sweet piece of mopar history, one way or the other
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You must have lots of free time. When I did a 440, I spent a full day trying to get it apart after letting it 'soak' for a good while. Back then, (2000 or so?), picking up a complete engine was fairly easy but at the time, I was working at the plant, helping out at our furniture store plus building rear ends AND engines so spending a lot of time trying to save a corroded up engine just wasn't time effective.
I have very little free time, but I do a lot of work every day. Every project I have going gets attention, from rebuilding my plow pump, an addition on my house, and car and truck stuff all the time. For this engine, I don’t need it, but I never shy away from a challenge. The stroker 340 I built was in a car that sat for decades, due to an accident in the 70’s, same with this engine, and another 340 that will be next. A little here a little there. Got the lifters moving and will pull them out when I get back home from a meeting to buy a whole house water filtration system I’ll be installing, before I change over to a tankless water heater. We have some of the worst water around, but my neighbor sells industrial water filtration systems, so he knows our water woes here. I also need a new gas meter for the tankless, no good deed goes unpunished!
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I'm guessing you ain't in your mid 70's yet?
I didn't think it was possible to have a non-kosher dill.
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Then and Now, $13.26 later, not perfect but good enough!
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Picked up my 2 4post lifts and installed 1 started on the 2nd. They are really nice lifts. Once completed I can remove my cars out of the paint booth so I can complete it. Had the wife on this project as well.
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