Are you planning on resurfacing the engine deck? That's the only reason to take those out.That is what I love doing. Unfortunately, it is more of a curse than a blessing most times. I learned that trying to get someone else, you have to rely on, to match your standards is not fun to do. It will take more time, but I will finish this project in a way I will be proud of eventually!
There are "only" two financially big things still on the Todo list (besides a lot of small things which will sum up too of course) ...
The engine and Interior (I’m going to try and reuse the vinyl from the door boards, but the seats have to be completely new.)
I decided to do the Engine next, because I can do more things around it then when doing the seats first.
So next thing will be getting all the engine parts into the hot tank and then to the machine shop.
The machine owner will also help me picking the right parts I will have to buy to do a proper rebuild on my engine.
I will post the finished list of parts on here as well when I have it to get opinions from you guys as well.
So last week, I started engine work by removing all the dowel pins and expansion/pipe plugs and then grinding away all the casting flashes on the block.
Still ways to go with that, but the temperatures dropped into the negatives in my shop again...
All of the dowel pins were stuck in the block so I had to weld nuts to every single one of them in order to attach a slide hammer to them to get them out. But in the end, that worked just fine.
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Be careful with what you replace them with. I've seen guys snap off hardened deck pins, so I stick with the non-hardened pins like original.
