Not sure how stainless would respond to forming it over a wooded buck....I know aluminum can be formed by throwing old chewing gum at it....
Well, still haven't worked out the camera thing yet...but did manage to get mine to work, as long as I don't try to zoom....!
Shipped off the headers after I finished some final filing down of the welds.
Installed the exhaust studs with plenty of anti-sieze. The headers actually install with them in place! What a concept.....
Installed a couple of the valve cover studs....still have newspaper covering the rockers until I get done dorking around in there...don't want to drop stuff and dog hair into the new internals....! Will do the last 6 when I am ready to install valve covers!
Installed the main jackshaft drive belt and snugged down the adjuster pulley. As I posted in the Tech Section, I am not happy with the fit, as the adjuster is all the way out at the end of it's travel....but what I thought was a slightly shorter belt that I ordered, turned out to be the same as I had already tried....ugh.
Tightened up the motor mount to frame nuts. Lifted engine just a hair to take pressure off so that they could seek "at rest" and not be distorted from my moving things around whilst installing the trans.
Replaced 3 of the 4 front radiator tube splices with Gates Green Stripe 1-3/8" hose. The top left connection at the radiator actually has a bend in it that will appear to kink the straight Green Stripe. Current hose is still supple, so tightened the hose clamps and left it.....hopefully that small piece will NOT come back and haunt me somewhere....near Barstow....
I don't think Green Stripe hose comes with curves.....but something with about a 135 degree angle in it would probably work...not a tight 90.
Tomorrow (later today!) I hope to pick up a candidate for the final hose, from water pump to lower tube, a different tiny heater hose for the water pump connection, some fasteners for the sway bar and alternator, and some misc lock & flat washers, and try and dig up some flange gaskets for the exhaust while I'm at the AP store!
Time to consolidate my notes to a new list. Too many scribbles and misc notes....gets confusing, plus I ran out of room for new notes to help my aged brain keep up to the program here!
I'm tempted to install my other set of headers just to fire this thing up! Connect some straight pipes.....OK...back to work....enuf of this!
Getting close to "just waiting" until the headers come back!.......nah!!! Plenty to do!
Ciao!
Steve