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Givem all the old bewt. :chuck: I don't know of a better car website (mopar or otherwise) with a goofier bunch of fellahs than this one. :haha: Anyone who doesn't find this board to be great deserves to get a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick back to Russia. :yesnod:

Good idea!

So if I tell the machinist what I'm wanting to do with the car, they will order what ever kind of set up I need? I would hope they wouldn't just put crap stock replacement parts in there when I will be seeing some strip time.

I know I need to wait until a machinist tells me how much over I need to have my engine block bored before I can order up some new pistons. But aside from this, since I will likely ask the machine shop to assemble the block back for me, should I go ahead and get my new timing chain, water pump...

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It's a car that got parked in 1980 and never got turned over since. My dad was too busy working to ever get around to it. Now that he's gone, I've been giving the car some attention after literally 30 years. The engine sat in the humid South and rusted. So it took me a while to get it apart...

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Here's another question that just occurred to me, should I have the shop install the crank and pistons or do they just get the bores done and have you do the installation at home?

I completely hadn't thought of that. Thanks for the advice John. It would probably also show that the shop is a bit more worth it's while if they have that sort of extra equipment on hand for Mopar work.

Oh ok, that makes sense. Do machine shops usually charge you twice? Once for telling you what size overbore you'll need and then the second time to actually do the work?

I'm an amateur at this, being my first time ever rebuilding an engine. But I'm not asking this question without any background. I've done gobs of reading on this topic and I've gotten a lot of diversity on an answer. So now that my block is bare and ready for cleaning and machining, I need to...

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Basket, my dad did the same thing. The trunk of my Runner had THREE spare alternators in it along with some extra belts.

Holy crap!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: New rods it is. I'm not even going to bother having them checked. I'm not about to put all kinds of money and work into this engine to have a rod blow a hole in the block. The original owner told me they really put the engine through a lot when he had it...

LoL It's kinda like that faucet commercial where the people visit a world renowned architect and ask him to build a home around it. Not only would I have to build an engine under them, but also I'd need a car to put that in. :lol:

I don't know how I have overlooked these so many times. But I found these air cleaner pie tins stashed away with some other Mopar stuff of my dad's. I never knew my dad to have a 340 or 440, so I don't know where he got em. Probably snagged them for a buck on one of our many junk yard trips...

Now that I've got that done, it's obvious the pistons are trash. Should I forget about the old rods as well? My dad and his best friend beat the crap out of the engine back in the 70s at the drag strip. So I don't know that I trust them now. The only thing I want to think about keeping is...

Heck yea man. I'll definitely throw my name in the hat. I was up at Wal-Mart the other day trying to load up on more ammo. It's getting hard to find even the common stuff. Everywhere in Memphis, AR's are sold out and .223 (5.56mm) is hard as hell to find even if you have an AR. .22 for my...