Posted by fixerupper on December 05, 2007 at 18:10:02 from (216.51.182.132):
In Reply to: Wow! What A Rush!! posted by Allan In NE on December 05, 2007 at 13:01:20:
It's always a rush no matter how many times you do it. It really cleaned up nice too. I'll bet you start her up again tomorrow "just to do it".
I put a junkyard engine in a neighbor's pickup once, but we started her up on the shop floor first. I think it was a Chevy 327 if I remember right. We filled the block with water and he held his finger over the oil gauge port. I forget what we did for fuel. The shop was kind of noisy for a minute or so before we shut it down. The next day when he was at work he told some co-workers about it and they told him an engine wouldn't run if it wasn't in the vehicle. Little did they know!
I've done it numerous times since then on rebuilt engines that are going to sit for quite awhile before going into a restoration project. It gives me a high every time they roar to life.
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