But first another picture,
Sweet isn't it? Oh what the hell, one more
So she is all set to go back in and for reasons that at the time did not make sense Marco decided to fill it with oil before we put it in. The car is lined up and the engine is on the lift and we are set to go. Suddenly the FE390 starts to perform a re-enactment of the Exxon Valdez incident and oil gushes everywhere.
Back on the ground we diagnose a leaking sump pan gasket so we drain the oil and remove the pan only to find nothing really wrong. So the gasket is put back on, this time with a touch of silicon sealant and we start again. Once more we get to the position above and oil starts to pour out. After much scratching of gonads (our own ones, natch) we diagnose a warped oil pan. Good old Red Weaver (the guy in the foreground) told me that he had a 65 parts car with the same pan which was mine for the taking. 90 minutes later we are back at the ranch and an hour later I have the pan scrubbed clean of 40 years of sludge, sandblaster and painted, this time in chrome. So we replace the pan, fill her up with oil and start again. Can you guess what happened next? So it isn't the pan. Therefore it must be the block or more likely the rear crankshaft cap which of course was messed with to replace the seal. Marco decides to work on it while it is swinging on the hoist. Normally I would have recommended that we block it first but I was way beyond caring at this stage and as far as I was concerned OSHA could shove their rules where the sun doesn't shine.
Then we find that the cap is not central on the bearing because someone who shall be named (Marco) put the seal in backwards.
So all in all it was a complete waste of a day although had he not oiled it up I would have not discovered the reversed seal until I fired the beast up and then the engine would be coming out again. Now it is back to AutoZone to buy the third oil seal. This is getting old.
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