couple q's on a 1967, 289/c4 .......

well, my buddies 67 289 coupe is gonna get a new oil pump, because he's concerned about psi a idel. so we're gonna do that. i plan on dropping the idler arm and the outter tie-rod when we do it, so we can get access. then, drop the cross member.
also gonna clean out the sump, and pick-up. were using a standard oil pump.

first question
do you think it would hurt if we , 1 by 1 poped off the main caps and looked at the mains. then torqued them back up.?

we're also gonna do a front seal in the timing chain cover
this leads me to my second question
when we get a gasket set, do we need one with or with-out the sleeve. i think he already has one with a sleeve.

then were gonna do a tranny filter/gasket. anything to watch out for when we drop the filter? i heard of a small ball bearing or something.


i'm a good machanic, i haven't done a tranny filter, but have done many suspension jobs, and a few rebulids. so i'm pretty confadent about this.

ps, bob, if you wanna go, let me know. we're gonna be at miramar.
if you see anything we should watch-out for, the info would be appriciated.

Well, thanks.


To answer your pm,
I didn't install my new m/c yet. I might do it tomorrow though, if the 67 is forgiving. As for the proportioning valve, it’s by the m/c, right under it. You can come straight out of the master, to the adj valve, to the rear brakes. Plug up the unused ports on the original proportioning block.

The front goes to the back, the back to the front. That master cylinder by the way is out of a 94-95 mustang. And the fittings are metric, 10mx1.0 and 12mx1.0 threads.


hope this helps some.
Eric

ps, i have a few pics of how i'm gonna plumb it on the site under "my grande".