No flexplate today..POS usps. tracking shows it’s in birmingham at 3 am today, but it’s not scheduled for delivery till friday.
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Not that i coulda done much anyway other than take measurements for the converter re-do...Besides,...i had enough stuff to keep me busy.
I found two pinholes in the pan. Just like a roof leak however, where the leak drips from and where it comes from are two different things. And trying to find the source when the engine was in there full of oil proved that i was applying job weld to places that weren’t leaking. The pinhole at the front of the sump was actually forward of where i had been trying to blob on the JB weld. To make
@HotFox happy, I filled the pan to the top with water...when nothing appeared to be dripping, i ran compressed air along the weld seam from outside the pan. As soon as the nozzle passed over the pinhole,....bubbles.
The one at the rear was a bonus...I thought that the two rear pan bolts were leaking because i assumed they passed into the crankcase..Turns out I was wrong...there was another pinhole right next to the dripping bolt.
So...
Im confident that that problem is behind me.
The front pump did get here, and so that is what else got done..
The thing made a whirring noise when it was running...Whether or not that was because i was almost jamming the converter into it, or that it was starting to fail ( a noisy pump is the sign of impending pump failure) or...( It don’t like getting it’s ass jammed full in with a two inch diameter shaft of rotating steel)
One way or the other, i’m not taking any chances. I didn’t replace the pump when I originally rebuilt the thing, so it can’t hurt to do it now.
I prepped the engine for the cams...They’ll be here tomorrow, and i’ll install them on Sunday
I’m just hoping that this can be done w/o having to take off that harmonic balancer...that freaking thing is torqued on at 270 ft lbs... trying to break it loose is one scary assed procedure..
Not to mention the Ball busting that happens trying to get it done.