For some reason I mentally interpret this post as Tyrone Biggums telling a classroom of kids “rusty slagheaps have destroyed my life”. While wearing a jacket with rust on it. While looking at craigslist on his phone.

Some of them have 8:1 compression engines instead of 7:1. Mine is not one of them. Hey, at least it’s an OHV instead of the F-head six.

Also, I have not torn down my 4.2 to the point I can mic the cam. Sorry.

It might be okay, but Power Tune, et al seems to suggest cam erosion over time is a thing. Not as big a thing as timing chain stretch, but.

Know anybody with a powertrain lathe? They don’t have any on the shelf to mic?

What I was looking at apparently was his mention that they changed the installation process. Supposedly, all RV8 cam bearing sets are sized the same. So, I’d call them up and have them mic a cam.

Grrr. I think I remember something about different cam journal sizes in Hammill, but most of what I remember on cams has to do with some engines having a cam button and others not, because stupidity and cam walk. I don’t have either How to Power Tune or my RRC workshop manual with me at work, so...

It’s engine-powered, so in theory it’s a 70hp worm-drive winch.

It’s a “power capstan”, made IIRC by Fairey Engineering, who also made locking hubs for Series models. There’s a three-pin dog clutch which you use to connect it to a special flanged replacement for the crank bolt, and it has a short crank that fits through the normal crank hole in the bumper. So, you can still…

Just checking. Yeah, they require the most maintenance if they aren’t running on a regular basis... which mine hasn’t been lately. Too busy with other projects. I have a fuel sender issue and a crack in the top of the radiator...

I am guessing that visible spot welds and rope cleats aren’t enough to move something like this off of “smooth-sided bed” for you.

“But they’re not serious!” has been the obvious conclusion of every other nation dealing with a US administration in (conservatively) the last 80 years. The end game of playing chicken is not to crash cars but to make the other guy move more to his lane than you do to yours... and yet cars sometimes get crashed.…

I’d like to see something like Pierce Arrow did:

Quit bragging about your fancy new Buick...

I had one for a couple of years while in college (2004-2006 or so). I did love it, but I sold it to paint my antique Land Rover. It’s mostly the reason that I bought a Ranchero.

I want an XM coupe, myself.

I too am Of Barge, but I take the German form Von Bargem.

A non-subsided Jalopnik beump could have effects, on the racingue.

I was going to say - this thread brings the realization that I have my work cut out for me.

Make sure that the parking lights on the front are 1/16" out of line with the signals because the “extra” holes from fitting signals weren’t on the early ones, make sure one of the front frame horns is twisted, build a static tumbler to recoat old bolts with the proper shittyplate particle zinc before reassembly,…