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The plan is a 1300 head with dished pistons for a 9.0:1 CR, the Eurospec inlet and exhaust manifolds with Twin SUs. Hoping for minor HP and efficiency gains.

Sandblasted rocker cover 01	Rocker cover International Harvester Red	Rocker cover new gasket and fasteners	dipstick from ebay 01	dipstick paint
Drill center main to five sixteenths (1)	Drill center main to five sixteenths (2)	Drill center main to five sixteenths (3)	Drill center main to five sixteenths (4)	Tapered pipe tap clean-up for OP sensor
212164 camshaft from ebay	Sampson Racing Engines (2)	Crank at machine shop ready for polish after balancing	Camshaft and crankshaft after visit to machine shop	Cam Bearing scratches from installation (1)
Cam Bearing scratches from installation (2)	Balancing the clutch and flywheel (1)	Balancing the clutch and flywheel (2)	Balancing the clutch and flywheel (3)	After line honing
Rear cap cross hatch	Center cap welded on material and faced on mill (3)	Center cap welded on material and faced on mill (5)	Front Cap cross hatch	Honed cylinders and decked surface
LH side of engine after machine shop visit	More cross hatch view in cylinder Now 20 over	New County 7 point 5 to 1 pistons 20 over	Piston and rod weights	Rods straightened and new small end bushes circled big ends
County 20 under bearings 05-24-14 (1)	County 20 under bearings 05-24-14 (2)	County 20 under bearings 05-24-14 (3)	flaw in center cap 05-24-14 (1)	flaw in center cap 05-24-14 (2)
Gapping rings 05-24-14 (1)	Gapping rings 05-24-14 (2)	Plastiguage mains 05-24-14 (1)	Plastiguage mains 05-24-14 (2)	Plastiguage mains 05-24-14 (3)
Plastiguage mains 05-24-14 (4)	Thrust washers need replacing 05-24-14	Oil control ring ends meet 05-24-14	Plastigauging con rod bearings 05-24-14 (1)	Plastigauging con rod bearings 05-24-14 (3)
Plastigauging con rod bearings 05-24-14 (7)	Plastigauging con rod bearings 05-24-14 (6)	Pistons in block 05-24-14	Camshaft Location plate	Checking camshaft endfloat of 007
Inserting lubed camshaft from 1300.	Location plate temporarily installed to measure end float of cam. Measured at .007	Camshaft plug installed	Orientaion of oil pump bushing	Stupid. Broke lip on oil pump bushing driving it home, but pressing it was awkward. Found a new one on eBay for reasonable money... had never seen one before there. Put the new one in the freezer and it went in easier, but still a force fit.
Rear Main Seal parts	Gasket in place for rear main seal housing	Grease on this side	Lapping oil pump housing 1	Lapping oil pump housing 2
reduced clearance from 006 to 0025	Assemble oil pump with grease	Oil pump installed (1)	Helicoil rear sealing block (2)	Helicoil rear sealing block (3)
Helicoil rear sealing block (4)	chamfer threads in rear sealing block (1)	chamfer threads in rear sealing block (2)	Blue RTV sealant lightly smeared on corner gaskets	Triming wood sealing blocks
aligning and installing front sealing block (2)	aligning and installing front sealing block (4)	aligning and installing front sealing block (5)	Blue RTV and gaasket on oil sump	Grease on block
New oil sump fasteners (1)	New oil sump fasteners (2)	installing oil gallery plugs (1)	installing oil gallery plugs (2)	installing oil gallery plugs (3)
installing oil gallery plugs (4)	Water Jacket plug install (1)	Water Jacket plug install (2)	Rear Bearer plate install (1)	Rear Bearer plate install (2)
Flywheel install	Spigot bush install (1)	Spigot bush install (2)	Front core plug install	Front bearer plate install
Side core plug install (1)	Side core plug install (2)	Need to order this 125 core plug	Degree wheel on flywheel read it backwards	Aligning sprockets took out two shims
Shims removed when fitting gears	Heavy duty timing chain on left	Inlet valve is second valve in 2	New gear wouldn't time properly holes off	Marking timing attempts on old gear which had proper holes
Top Dead Center	Found lift to be at 110 point 5	Dial indicator at TDC of engine	Timing dots at TDC	Oil Slinger
Old chain tensioner on left	Removing chain tensioner	Sandblasting off the major blemishes	Installing front seal	Gloss black paint applied to timing cover
Fitting Chain Tensioner (1)	Fitting gasket to timing cover	Front cover hardware	Timing cover fitting (2)	Burnished pulley surface
Showing agreement with TDC (3)	Oil pressure relief valve (1)	Oil pressure relief valve (2)	Oil pressure switch	Installing tappets (1)
Installing tappets (2)	Installing tappets (3)	Installing tappets (4)	Payen vs Standard gasket front and back (1)	Payen vs Standard gasket front and back (2)
Gasket in place	Hardened washers to replace the worn washers previously used	Assy Lube on 1300 pushrods	1300 pushrods	Rocker alignement
Misaligned bent rocker from Moss (2)	Installed engine water jacket plug. Note the old rockers in place. The new rockers did not allow for setting the lash and did not align. Sent them back to Moss.	Installing oil plug with copper washer (1)	Installing oil plug with copper washer (2)	Engine on stand for paint (2)
Engine masked for painting (1)	Ready for paint out in drive (1)	Ready for paint out in drive (2)	Paint on bottom half (1)	Paint on upper half (2)
Paint on upper half (3)	Masking removed after paint (1)	Masking removed after paint (2)	Masking removed after paint (3)	Rocker cover installation (1)
Handcut rubber gaskets	Rocker cover installation (3)	Getting the lift table over the engine stand is not trivial. It is very heavy.	Moving from stand back to cart (3)

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