Working on the Engine

 Mostly worked on the engine this week and got all the pistons back in, oil pan on, timing cover on and the balancer.  Have to take the oil pan back off because the quality of the pan was not up to my specs as usual and I need to drill and tap the drain plug over again to get it to work right.  Not surprising.

Also has a couple budies help me remove the engine  and transmission out of the car and dispose of it.  It was a Pontiac engine with little or no use in a Chevelle.  Its now at the junk yard.  We found that whomever installed the Pontiac engine welded the motor mounts onto the frame.  Now I have quite a task to unweld them so I can install normal Chevelle motor mounts.

 

I've still got a couple things I'm working on on my Chevelle and once done I will finish disassembling this car and get it into the shop.  I will have to build a body buck to hold the body once its removed.  This will be done so I can roll the chassis out from under the body and into the driveway to make it easier to the the bodywork.  Once the floor is removed I'll be able to stand inside and grind and sand the interior and prime it with rust resistant paint.  When I want to work on the chassis I can roll the body out on the buck if I put wheels on it so its out of the way.  Normally a body shop would put the body on a rotisery to make it easier to spin the body around and work on all sides but I just don't have the space.  That was in my prior plan when I was going to move and get a larger work space.

Hopefully next week I will have the engine as complete as it will get until I'm ready to install it.  That means pretty much adding the cylinder heads and the intake manifold.  While its waiting I will move it over to my storage facility after its oiled up good.  It will probably be there for several months.