Pulling my 350! Pics!

[Unofficial]

I posted a thread a couple weeks ago about some possible blow-by issues, and it got really bad one day after coming home from school. I was blowing tons of smoke out my driver's side exhaust and I blew my valve cover gasket too. Smoke everywhere! Well I wanted to park it for the week but my dad told me it'll be fine since we're gonna put in a new bottom end anyway. I told him how bad it was but he didn't seem to get it...

Well today he sees me driving to school while he's driving home for lunch and he called me later and said to get started on it today 

I'm getting a whole new bottom end and I'll just reuse all of my other stuff like heads, intake, cam, etc... basically just getting a new short block.

So I worked on it from about 11am-1:30pm and then 9:30pm-12am and here's my progress...


Had to move Dad's Mustang to use the garage!


In the garage and ready to go


Here's what I'm working with...


I took the hood off for more room/light


Aaaaaand here we go!


Valve cover is off so I can take the driver's side head off because I think that's where my problem is


Head is off, doesn't look too bad except that #5 has quite a bit of oil in in...


Here's 1,3,5, and 7


Driver's side head


Being goofy 


Other head is off for further inspection, I'm having them checked out ASAP


All ready to be pulled out!


Here's what tomorrow awaits...

Sorry these pictures aren't the greatest for a how-to or anything, just thought I'd share with you guys. Everything is ready for it to be pulled out tomorrow, I'll keep you guys posted with info & pictures.

[Irish_Alley]

what seat do you have in there? is it still for sale even after doing all this work

[screamin86]

looks good latching on to this one :p

[Unofficial]

Which seat? It's just a bench seat if that's what you mean. And yes, I still want to sell it after I do this work.

[Irish_Alley]

Looks small for a full size truck for some reason

[screamin86]

I agree

[Unofficial]

Might be my camera, the lens angle is kind of weird. Funny though because a guy called about an ad I had on craigslist for it and he thought it was a short box because of the picture. It's a long box I swear! 

[Lt.Del]

I'll take dad's '65 Mustang!!  From your pic, I think I see the chrome fender 289 emblem.  Don't tell me it is a early 65 w/ a 260.?   C4 auto?  or standard 3 or 4 spd?  I used to judge concours correct mustangs at 'stang shows years ago.  have your dad pull up my site: www.delbridge.net/vintage.html

[jaredts]

As mentioned, the seat looks way small like its from a mini truck or something.  It looks like you'd be sitting on one cheek while driving.

[Unofficial]

I'll take dad's '65 Mustang!!  From your pic, I think I see the chrome fender 289 emblem.  Don't tell me it is a early 65 w/ a 260.?   C4 auto?  or standard 3 or 4 spd?  I used to judge concours correct mustangs at 'stang shows years ago.  have your dad pull up my site: www.delbridge.net/vintage.html

'65 with a 289. We restored it together a while ago. It had a 3 speed but we blew it up on a little road trip so we put a 4 speed toploader in it. He lets me drive it sometimes, it's a lot of fun 

As mentioned, the seat looks way small like its from a mini truck or something.  It looks like you'd be sitting on one cheek while driving.

Yeah, it does look kind of small... But like I said, my camera lens is kind of odd and plus the angle I was holding the camera was weird.

[beastie_3]

I miss my 66.

Didnt want to pull the engine, THEN tear it apart?

[Unofficial]

I miss my 66.

Didnt want to pull the engine, THEN tear it apart?

No?

[Unofficial]

Well I got it out a couple days ago... The rings on piston 3 and 7 were completely shot and the grooves between the ring sets were basically gone. I'm having the whole thing re-ringed and having the heads gone over. I should have it back tomorrow morning but I'll be busy with work and school so it might take a while to get back in the truck. Here's a few more pictures, sorry I don't have any of the internal damage.

[TexasRed]

I wonder what caused the ring failures? The ring landings are bad too? So you're getting new pistons? But #5 seemed ok?

[Unofficial]

I wonder what caused the ring failures? The ring landings are bad too? So you're getting new pistons? But #5 seemed ok?

Well at first I thought I might have made a small hole in one of the pistons due to bad timing over a long period of time, but I think I know what caused the ring failure... This motor was completely rebuilt about 10k miles ago so something major must have done this.

I was going down to Illinois (only about 40 mins away) to take a girl to a movie and my 700r4 went out on me. I drove the rest of the way there in second gear because all I had was first and second.  I drove it home the same way, so I was at high rpms for a prolonged time period, I'm sure that's what initially destroyed the rings and it just got worse and worse until I got the severe blow-by problems. The guy who builds my motors is using a whole new block and everything though, so I'm looking forward to getting it going again.