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I peened the holes with the one piece gasket and again with the one that's on it now this one hasn't leaked a drop so it is or was probably warped. Every time i think about a new pan i think about going with a cast pan just so i don't have to worry as much about warping and having to peen old...

I could... :D ... i should have torn it down and checked through everything and put shellac on all the gaskets that needed it after the first problem. I bought it with "roughly 3k on a rebuild" it wasn't timed quite right when i drove it home, random misses etc but not bad. A friend of mine...

Anyway I should have included the reason for the pump swap in the first post low oil pressure. 20psi at idle cold ~2psi at idle warm and 15psi at 3k rpm warm. That was at 4000 miles past a rebuild if the previous owner could be believed + my 1500 miles or so pressure didn't start acting up until...

actually it was a faltering oil pressure and a leaky pan gasket that prompted the change, however i could have left the old pump in when i realized it was just a clogged screen (clogged with rtv from the previous owner). either way pan off would have ended up with wrong gasket as i needed a pan...

I have seen the professional polishers, and the sandpaper, but the 9' shoelace gives me an idea. You know how 8-track tapes are an endless loop with a single drive, find a long cotton loop, wrap one end multiple times around the crank and attach a motor... I honestly don't know why the first...

Well i start half a month of vacation tomorrow, and we only have plans through the middle of next week so maybe I'll have a machine shop fix my crank and rod or just replace the rod and grab a crank that needs work from a salvage yard and experiment on that. I also have a spare set of heads...

Not what i wanted to hear, but it makes since. Think something like that would work on extremely light scratching? oh couldn't sleep so here is a mockup without proper measurements

needs a row of D size model rocket engines on the back rigged to ignite in pairs

If this is in the wrong place can a mod move it for me. I google the hell out of this and searched here specifically with built in search to no avail on my specific idea. So I tried one of those one piece oil pan gaskets after swapping to a high volume oil pump and got the wrong one for my...