kp6401
New Member
Hi All, first off, sorry about posting the update in cars for sale. Figuring this out, I am a SLOW learner.
Bought this 71 from Fearless Fury late last year. He did a great job with it. Over the winter I replaced the lower driver side quarter and inner quarter (amateur) but ALL metal, required a lot of work with crappy patch panels available. Over this winter, I will do behind the front driver wheel and the passenger side lower inner/outer rear quarter.
This summer, as Fearless reported, I have driven the car and encountered the knock in the motor he did. Car is a 360 with 76k on it, many years in hibernation till Fearless rescued it. I put in SAE 30 weight oil and STP engine treatment. When it gets to normal operating temperature, at low idle I get occasionally the low oil pressure idiot light...yikes. When accelerating between 45 to 65mph, it has a knock. Seems like an upper end knock, I am surmising cam bearings, but not sure with the idiot light. I have spun main bearings on cars which knock horrendously, this car does not. Any thoughts from anybody?? I think I may be pulling the engine this winter, I am wondering about the compression rings and the cam bearings, perhaps the mains, but mains do not seem like the issue. Trans too, I changed the filter/fluid which stopped the leaks but the parking pall is croaked. I have attached pix to update everybody on what I have done to continue trying to save this old beauty. I am an amateur and have already been criticized at local cruise nights about my poor body work skills, but felt when all is done, metal is underneath and I will have the car professionally finished and painted.
Bought this 71 from Fearless Fury late last year. He did a great job with it. Over the winter I replaced the lower driver side quarter and inner quarter (amateur) but ALL metal, required a lot of work with crappy patch panels available. Over this winter, I will do behind the front driver wheel and the passenger side lower inner/outer rear quarter.
This summer, as Fearless reported, I have driven the car and encountered the knock in the motor he did. Car is a 360 with 76k on it, many years in hibernation till Fearless rescued it. I put in SAE 30 weight oil and STP engine treatment. When it gets to normal operating temperature, at low idle I get occasionally the low oil pressure idiot light...yikes. When accelerating between 45 to 65mph, it has a knock. Seems like an upper end knock, I am surmising cam bearings, but not sure with the idiot light. I have spun main bearings on cars which knock horrendously, this car does not. Any thoughts from anybody?? I think I may be pulling the engine this winter, I am wondering about the compression rings and the cam bearings, perhaps the mains, but mains do not seem like the issue. Trans too, I changed the filter/fluid which stopped the leaks but the parking pall is croaked. I have attached pix to update everybody on what I have done to continue trying to save this old beauty. I am an amateur and have already been criticized at local cruise nights about my poor body work skills, but felt when all is done, metal is underneath and I will have the car professionally finished and painted.
