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Lake Speed, the Motor Oil Geek, has interesting videos on oil...& zinc. It is about 20 min, maybe somebody can link it. Oil with 1200ppm Zinc was used with FT cam, no issues.
Then a Zinc 'supplement' with 3600 ppm Zinc was added to the oil. Cam/lifters failed soon afterwards.
Moral of the story...
These are the nuts and bolts that mount my OEM fan shroud to the radiator. The nuts are stamped "CIP" with "GR-5" underneath. The bolt heads have crosshair dashes casted at the 9:00, 12:00, and 3:00 positions with some kind of a Y-ish symbol at the 6:00 position. Thread size/pitch is 1/4-20 NC...
I have tried every which way possible for over 10 years trying to find the Mach1 and have not had any leads at all on it so yeah I agree that finding it is going to be about as hard to do as hitting the lottery,especially since he got rid of it around late 1971. I just happened to find the vin...
Lubrication may not be the issue in the majority of cases but it is worth attention.
I put a '528 solid in my 440/493 in 2014. It had the Howards EDM lifters. For years I ran Royal Purple, then Valvoline VR1 with a bottle of Comp Cams break in supplement. Early 2022, I switched to a synthetic...