Wes and I spent a little time on the engine this weekend. We removed the valve cover only to find a mess underneath. The water that we knew was in the oil had corroded the rocker arms with surface rust. I believe they can simply be cleaned, but we are taking the head off with the valves intact to have it looked at. A little disappointing. We also noticed that while removing the exhaust manifold and valve cover, the bolts were not tight on either. Surprised it stayed together.
Hopefully once we get the head off we’ll be able to determine if we have a bad gasket or crack in the block.
We were successful in installing the replacement window. It looks much better. Pics up soon.
Wes and I were unable to spend time on the car this past weekend. Our church had a “True Love Waits” program all weekend and Wes participated. My wife and I also participated as well. The service manual arrived Friday, which was great but not having any time to work on the car wasn’t fun. Hopefully we can spend a good amount of time this weekend to get further into the engine.
Wes and I spent Saturday working on replacing the rear driver-side glass window. Since we’ve never done this before it was an experience for sure. We first busted up as much of the broken window as possible, leaving the bead of urethane sealant still attached. It took us forever to remove it. We learned that the urethane is also attached to the new glass being that it was removed from a junk car.
The new glass is in pretty good shape, we just need a few items to install it. One being the urethane “rope” and three spacers that are already attached to the window, but were cut from the junk car. I’m going to call a few glass places around town and see if they are able to sell the urethane and spacers to me.
Wes and I went shopping the other day and purchased some minor things such as a new floor jack and additional stands. The new back window glass will hopefully be in this week. (Really tired of seeing it with the duct-tape on the remaining glass) We also went ahead and changed the oil and such and found that it is leaking water into the oil. Milky! It seems the head was not re-installed properly. Hope that is the case anyway.
We cleaned the interior more this time and washed it again. Didn’t help much on washing it. It is going to need a paint job badly. We are planning on doing that anyway to match the color of the example car. We drove it around the block and it rides fine. Will need to adjust the clutch some. I’m really hoping we can complete this “project” ourselves and not have to spend much money for someone else to do it for us.
So far so good. Wes and Cady cleaned the 240 last weekend. I ordered the replacement side window (driver-side). I was preparing to purchase an engine stand to rebuild the motor since it smokes heavily right now. When I spoke to my friend Marshall at Performance Motorsports, He suggested I purchase the shop manual for the car first and then check timing and give it a tune-up. Suggested that the timing may have not been adjusted correctly by the guys I picked up the car from. I agreed since he’s seen the car first hand and is good friends with the previous owner(s).
So tomorrow Wes and I are going to do some shopping and work a little more on the car and the van. We’ve found pics of how we want the car to turn out.