Golden Goddess heart surgery

[Cheapsunglasses]

I've only rebuilt one 727 in my life and had help.....and 0 gear boxes!! Kinda odd with the way I abused ALL transmissions. Guess I wasn't abusing them enough but doing neutral drops and power shifting stick boxes should have been enough....?

I’ve never done a real rebuild on any transmission. I’ve mixed parts and somehow made stuff work on a 727 and this Frankenstein 833, all on the tailgate of a pickup

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

What a great day. Took my lil red express to work, came home and got the valve seals on one head done and bolted the head back on. I don’t know if it was late, I just didn’t see it or what’s going on, but apparently I have a head bolt missing . I stole one from the other head just to get it done though.

 

[ckessel]

Minor detail, you have plenty of others holding the head down.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Exactly, there’s no reason for 15, 14 is fine

 

[Charles Cook]

Once you install the valve covers no one will ever know.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Alright time for the next battle, and the entire reason I pulled the engine. The one. The only. The dreaded real main seal!!

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

VICTORY!!!!

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Well poo. I either lost the new seal, or I forgot to order one. Either way I am unfortunately done for tonight. Still getting the old seal out was a major achievement

 

[ckessel]

With the engine out and accessible, your chances of putting the smack down on the leaks increases tremendously.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

That’s what I’m hoping for

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Time to work on the real reason for taking the engine out

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

My other goal for this thread is to have a complete transparent discussion on everything going on, admitting any mistake, asking any questions, doesn’t matter how stupid it might seem, someone is going to read this having the same issue and go ooh.

So case in point, I didn’t take the crank completely out, I just unbolted the main caps and lifted it enough to slide it in, probably not the best way, but that’s how I did it. Now it seems number 7 piston is hitting the counter weight. How do I fix that?

 

[Kern Dog]

Maybe I'm fuzzy from the medication I'm on but why take out the crank? You can replace bearings with the crank in place.
I had a rear main leak when I reinstalled my engine in the red car last year. I just pulled out the seal retainer and fixed what was wrong.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

@Kern Dog , I hope you are doing better.

I’m replacing the rear main seal. I’ve had help replacing one in another car with the engine in. But it’s a pain, and I wanted to change the cam, so pulling the engine made more sense. I tried to not touch the crank, just pull the seal, which was the original rope, put the new one in. But after spending a couple day’s fighting it, it was really squished in there, probably why it was leaking, I had to give in and get the crank off it

 

[Kern Dog]

Thanks for the well wishes.
OOoops! I forgot that you had a "rope" seal in there. I have never actually used one in all of my years so it didn't occur to me the difficulty of removal of one.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

They are a huge PIA

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Well damn it, it was just a flywheel bolt. It's always stupidly obvious things, and then when you come back and find it, makes you want to bang your head against the wall. Good thing my carport doesn’t have walls

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Must stay in the shade!

 

[ckessel]

I see shade and trees.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Valve springs changed, head torqued down. Time to hibernate until this evening. Using a 1970 chiltons manual my grandfather bought new. Unfortunately he’s no longer with us, but his knowledge always will be