Sunday, February 13, 2011

Tear Down Complete

The 351 is now in multiple oily pieces in various boxes, bags, and big chunks of metal.  A little final gasket scraping and it's off to the machine shop to see what is what. 

Had some milkshake looking stuff in cylinder 7 & 8.  This engine sat for 6 years after being pulled from a wrecked Cougar... that is all I was told when I bought it.



Bits and pieces of stuff in the oil pickup screen




Learned alot more about what is what inside the engine and how it all fits and works together.  Looking forward to re-assembly.  Near as I can tell, this engine has never been rebuilt, bored over...., all of the castings are withing 3 weeks of each other from 1969.  Keeping my fingers crossed.



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