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OK I pulled the motor from the car. Everything on top looks fine. But I noticed the flywheel is loose. And I am pretty sure that I torqued them to 60 ft lbs before installing the engine. So I am not...

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I took rod cap off. Meant to do #8 but did #7 instead. Bearing was scored and so was crank journal. Not sure how bad since I dont do this very often. But I assume this means I should pull the...

OK Tom thanks. I noticed that the Cyl 8 rod has more play in it than others. But have not taken anything off yet. I took a stethoscope thing used to find motor noises and found that the clunk was...

OK Thanks Tom. But can a piston be cracked and still have good compression?

Jeff

The oil smells like gas.

Need your help guys. My 425 was running great but I wanted to adjust the throttle linkage. So I did that but had to work the throttle several times. Then it was flooded and ran rough and backfired...

Thanks Ted, that is a good question. They are all the same original bolts with the shoulder. Also I noticed that oil drips out of both ends of both rocker rods even though there are caps at each end....

Just finishing rebuilding this motor. Decided to pump up the oil pressure with my drill and see if oil comes out of each rocker arm as it should. It comes out of most of them but not the 2 rockers...

lumpkin1- it sounds like we have much in common- see posting two newer than yours. My engine code is W359, I think the W means the 425 engine.

I am new to this posting thing so forgive any goofs...

This one sat in a pole barn for 31 years. It has the 425 Nailhead, single quad, not running, actually frozen up crank. Single owner with documentation and about 71k miles. Here are the questions:
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