Posted by charles todd on August 16, 2008 at 20:10:50 from (205.242.95.141):
In Reply to: Bad smoking posted by PaulW_NJ on August 16, 2008 at 19:23:12:
My old college truck, now "Farm Truck" is a 1979 Chevrolet C20 Bonanza, 350 cid 4bbl. It has 150,000 miles and bout 30 years of grinding around at 3000+ RPM (4.10 ratio, no OD). I KNOW the heads are shot.
I called a machine shop to quote a head job and they told me to save my money and drive it until it quits or starts knocking. He explained that the tight heads will basicly blow out the the bottom end. That was 7 years ago and I am still driving it on the factory engine, never even has had a timing chain change (can probably touch the chain together between gears).
Good luck on your bottom end rebuild! Gotta do it now...
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