Reply To: Help and advice needed.

[Gregory Long]

Hi Johnny, I wish there was not 2600 miles between us, I’d love to wake up your car from it’s long sleep.

I want to revise my suggestions from my last post.

I have had several instances that a valve stem is rusted, and stuck in the valve guide. The cam lobe is on the ‘upstroke’, and cannot move the lifter or valve, and this ‘locks’ the engine.

So I will change my suggestion of ‘if you have time’ to ‘you should’ remove the two big nuts on the two-part valley cover over the cam. And take a look at the cam lobes, they can get rusty-crusty. Squirt the cam and valve springs, valve stems inside the springs, and lifters liberally with the ATF/Acetone mixture.

I’ve gone so far as to gently ‘Scotch-Brite’ the exposed cam lobes to remove surface rust and coat them with a grease of assembly-lube that will stay in place during the first few minutes of starting and running.

I have a ‘Bore-Scope’, a fiber-optic camera with light that I use to look inside a cylinder, to inspect for rust, debris, or ?? They are fairly reasonably priced at Harbor Freight, the one I recommend is the more expensive one, it has a much smaller camera and light than the lesser priced one.. I think the one I have cost about $200 at the time, the ‘cheap’ one was ~$90. But well worth the extra for the smaller camera,larger screen, photo ability etc..

Ok, let us know how things go.

OH, if you send me as many photos you can to [email protected], I’ll shop the car around for you.

Greg Long