more reading matt

[fuzz401]

http://www.amxfiles.com/resource/tech/v8faq.html
http://home.off-road.com/~ozifsja/tech/5-9litre.htm
http://www.ifsja.org/tech/motors/v8specs.shtml
http://riversiderebels.com/amccf/tech/v8_specs.html
http://www.greatoldcars.com/Engine%2...statistics.htm
http://www.wagoneers.com/XJ/tech/JEE...ing-order.html
http://www.bit.spt.fi/antti-ville.nauha/tech.html

[jeepsr4ever]

Good stuff, i read in a hot rod mag about the high nickles content and how it chews up machine tools, well thats really a novice speaking these blocks although they have a higher nickle content than many they are still very soft and very easily cut, heck my shackles are like 12 points harder than the 401 blocks i have in the shop

[fuzz401]

when i took my 304 apart with 120k miles there were still honeing marks in the cyl lol

[jeepsr4ever]

WOW did it smoke the whole time, it sounds like the rings may have never seated, their is a part number for engine with rings that never seat its a abrasive compound that scratches the cylinder and allows the glazing to peel off, thats wild still with hone marks, unreal....LOL i would have done a backflip if i saw that......LOL

[fuzz401]

hardly smoked at all

[jeepsr4ever]

Dang a 304 that didnt smoke, RARE BIRD..LOL thats great that you had good luck with it, why did you dissasemble it?

[fuzz401]

low oil pressur frount cam bearing about gone timming chain well oiled lol

[jeepsr4ever]

yeah bummer sounds like amybe the mains were worn, did you revv the heck out of it at all FUZZ?

[fuzz401]

2 grand neutral drops lol