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03/11/2013 7:57 am
PIC: remember when engines were easy to see and work on ?
This is a Chevrolet 6 cyl.
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03/11/2013 8:12 am
PIC...All I have to do is step out into my garage and open the hood, Dick......
This is a Dodge "6"....
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03/11/2013 8:16 am
Who's signature is on the firewall?
03/11/2013 8:22 am
The inspector at the factory who identified the color as "Lullaby Blue" Sympho-Chromatic.
03/11/2013 8:26 am
Flat heads were not that easy to work on were they .......
I thought flat heads were a lil harder to work on than the normal head engines
But then again ...
My wife reminds me every day to stop thinking :O
So I just do what I'm told:x
And every week a diecast car rolls up on the front porch 😉
03/11/2013 8:54 am
The only thing I can think of that's slightly more inconvenient to do on the sixes......
...are valve adjustments. Everything else is right in front of your nose, as opposed to modern stuff which I think is what Dick was driving at.
In fact, bearing and ring jobs with the engine in the car are slightly MORE convenient than on OHV sixes because you can pull the head without having to deal those pesky pushrods and rocker arms and having to reset all the valve clearances again when you're all done.
Topic starter
03/11/2013 10:19 am
Thanks Gene, so simple and clean looking.
To me anything past the early 70's got to cluttered to work on what with all the smog stuff being added.
03/11/2013 10:39 am
OK ... I understand ... Makes sense
03/11/2013 11:26 am
That is basicly the same engine I had in my 1936 Plymoth Coupe
03/11/2013 11:50 am
Yes, it is, Paul, but I've got a whopping 29 more cubic inches on yah. Wanna go fur pinks? 😉