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People have a tendency to get too deep in their first project & spend months/years on a project reworking it from head to toe as opposed to getting it up & running & enjoying it. Good luck with it




x2. It was running, the plugs looked good. Clean it off, regasket the intake and valve covers (everyone sees the valley pan...), paint it, and run it. I would not "look" at anything. Odds are on an old used engine you'll find at least one thing you dont like. That will domino into a rebuild, etc etc etc. Run it. If it breaks, then look into it.


Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know.