Re: 276 stroker from 35 years of parts
More very useable info here! This morning I cleaned and primered the truck pan as I wanted to know about the shiney bearings before it set the crank. Then I mowed about half of my gigantic lawn. Coming up soon will be the five short body oil pumps I found. 2 don't have pickup tubes and I can see that one has square cut gears and one has bevel. Don't know on the others yet I'm sure some examination with be in order. In the past I just bought a new melling for each overhaul as I was afraid of an old grubby looking pump having a failure. Now I'm of the mind that the factory stuff if in good working order is superior to much of the repop stuff today.
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Owner/Operator of 'Jailbar Ranch' on the side of Mt. Pickett. Current stable consists of 1946 1/2 ton pickup turned woodie wagon with FH V8, 1946 Tonner Pickup with 226 H six, 1979 Toyota landcruiser wagon, now wearing 1947 Ford Jailbar sheet metal. 'Rusty ol' floorboards, hot on their feet' (Alan Jackson)
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