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Somewhere in my collection is a old photo of dualie M-37's loading on a transport to go to Libya to look for the remains of the crew from the bomber "Lady Be Good"
No state has more humidity than Florida and all I ever used was a little water separator and inline paper filters ( one at compressor and one at spray gun ) and never had a issue. If you only have a small compressor than I would use a "Internal mix" spray gun like this one...
No you don't need to drop the pan as the oil pump is external and bolts into the side of block ( pic ). My tip would be to go buy or look up TM 9-1840A engine rebuild manual for the M-37 being you will have to align the pump slot ( aprox 1 o'clock position ) via the cam gear with tdc on #1.
Both the civie and military dists have a tapered slot on the bottom of their shafts that fit into the oil pump, the slot on the mil dist is offset ( see picture ) whereas the civie slot is centered on the shaft, so if the previous owner did not change out the military oil pump with a civie one...
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I guess I was lucky, when I had my 230 balanced the guy at the performance shop could not believe how well balanced the crank was, he said it was so close to perfect that he did not even bother with it and this was a guy who insisted that I go home and bring back my new hypro pistons so he...
I just replaced #1 & 2 while I was doing yearly service on my 003a.
The very front one I had to work back and forth ( in/out ) with the ratchet as it was binding but it came out, #2 came right out. I will get back to #3 & 4 later as they seem to be a little more difficult to get at and I was...
Forget kids
Here is a picture of a Jack Russell and her puppies that I...er..RESCUED on the side of a mountain with my Deuce..in the rain....while fighting off a bear!! [thumbzup]
I've always associated proper turbo cool down with highway driving ( ie Interstate /turnpike ) where your running along at cruise speed for quite awhile then pulll into a rest stop and simple shut down to which the overly hot turbo bearings burn off ( cook ) the residual oil in the bearing...
I would (also) like to thank all the members who put in their time to keep this Rally rolling along for 10 years, without them it wouldn't matter how many sponsors the event has.
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