Furyus67
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This will be a long post update! I haven't posted since October of 2021!!
In January of 2022 my wife an I moved into our first house. In May of 2022 our son was born. Two pretty big life events to put the Fury on hold.
Prior to buying a house my car had been at my parents. Things were a little more difficult to work on there because they don't have a garage or carport of any kind. I had been working on everything on the street.
I brought the Fury to our new home in July of 2022 which has a garage!
While we settled into being new parents and working on house projects the Fury went neglected for a while, but at least it was sitting undercover now.
This past fall I decided to completely tear down the engine again and rebuild it (after reading the notes from @68PK21 440.6bbl). During the tear down I noticed a few things that were done incorrectly or half@$$. I thoroughly cleaned everything, honed the cylinders, cleaned the pistons, replaced freeze plugs, and reassembled everything noting all my clearances. It was a great learning experience. This is what I wanted to do initially, but I didn't have a garage and was trying to get the car running before my wedding in Jul of 2020 (haha, clearly my project has dragged on). If this thing does fire up and run in the end, I'll be over the moon. If it doesn't run, at least I can only blame myself this time.
I still didn't see anything glaring that would have caused the leaks. For a sanity check I had the heads magnafluxed and pressure tested again. No cracks were found and they hold pressure. This time around I used a Cometic head gasket rather than an Enginetech head gasket.
I repainted the engine. The last builders did a terrible one coat rattle can spray job that I was very disappointed with. This time around I prepped the block following Uncle Tony's method
How To Get A Beautiful, Long Lasting Paint Job On Your Engine For One Dollar, then hand brushing on the Rustoleum rusty metal primer, then using Duplicolor DE1632 Chrysler Industrial Red rattle can. I did two light coats, followed by two medium wet coats. I'm really happy with how it turned out.
Aside from the engine, I decided I'm going to spray the engine bay. I have it stripped down and ready for paint. That is next on the hit list. I also stripped the carpet out and I'm working to put siless sound and heat reduction in it.
I've probably forgot somethings to mention, but things are looking up. I feel like I've got my mojo back and I've been eager to work on it again.
Here are a few pictures:
In January of 2022 my wife an I moved into our first house. In May of 2022 our son was born. Two pretty big life events to put the Fury on hold.
Prior to buying a house my car had been at my parents. Things were a little more difficult to work on there because they don't have a garage or carport of any kind. I had been working on everything on the street.
I brought the Fury to our new home in July of 2022 which has a garage!
While we settled into being new parents and working on house projects the Fury went neglected for a while, but at least it was sitting undercover now.
This past fall I decided to completely tear down the engine again and rebuild it (after reading the notes from @68PK21 440.6bbl). During the tear down I noticed a few things that were done incorrectly or half@$$. I thoroughly cleaned everything, honed the cylinders, cleaned the pistons, replaced freeze plugs, and reassembled everything noting all my clearances. It was a great learning experience. This is what I wanted to do initially, but I didn't have a garage and was trying to get the car running before my wedding in Jul of 2020 (haha, clearly my project has dragged on). If this thing does fire up and run in the end, I'll be over the moon. If it doesn't run, at least I can only blame myself this time.
I still didn't see anything glaring that would have caused the leaks. For a sanity check I had the heads magnafluxed and pressure tested again. No cracks were found and they hold pressure. This time around I used a Cometic head gasket rather than an Enginetech head gasket.
I repainted the engine. The last builders did a terrible one coat rattle can spray job that I was very disappointed with. This time around I prepped the block following Uncle Tony's method
How To Get A Beautiful, Long Lasting Paint Job On Your Engine For One Dollar, then hand brushing on the Rustoleum rusty metal primer, then using Duplicolor DE1632 Chrysler Industrial Red rattle can. I did two light coats, followed by two medium wet coats. I'm really happy with how it turned out.
Aside from the engine, I decided I'm going to spray the engine bay. I have it stripped down and ready for paint. That is next on the hit list. I also stripped the carpet out and I'm working to put siless sound and heat reduction in it.
I've probably forgot somethings to mention, but things are looking up. I feel like I've got my mojo back and I've been eager to work on it again.
Here are a few pictures:
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