The Temptress

Well update on the 346 saga , tried taking the starter out , and levering the ring gear .not a chance of movement ....tried dragging the compressor up the garden , put some 30 wt oil in the cylinder with closed valves , and whopped 120 psi into it , no leakage ,but also no movement , tried the crank nut and the ring gear method with the pressure on the cylinder , no vestige of a tiny chance of any movement ...looks to me like it is head off time .pox .

Ironically , apparently the old chap that had the car bought a head set , so its probably sitting in his shed forgotten . any one know how much a head gasket costs for one of these .?


Oh , last little jem was , i was looking at the rocker box thinking " oh look someone has snapped off one of the studs that hold it down " ,then realised they had ,to fix this ,blobbed two drops of weld on the edge to weld the rocker box to the head ...nice .


oh , one last last thing , 6 cylinders ..... FOUR INLETS ! poxy designer decided to bring the distributor up high , so its inline with a port , so he made a cast in tube across the cylinders , then put a 4 branch inlet manifold bolted onto the tube ..oh you could not write this stuff.