Just fired up tonight. Seems to idle pretty good. It was getting late so didn't get a chance to take it out. Pulls a solid 15in of vacuum at hot idle which it has never done. Couldn't find any leaks. Kind of a blessing in disguise really. The heads have had bronze inserts put in and one of them fell out. Got new viton seals put on the intake, surfaces checked, and new springs put on. Shop said the heads are good to go. Also had a little port work done on them previously. I was going to have them do more but there was a 2 week wait minimum just to get started. He also said I'd be better off bringing in a set of virgin heads to have a fresh start, which I agreed with so I just had them freshened and threw them back on. Also found that the tensioner had a busted ear, a bad pulley that was on backwards and shimmed with plain washers, and an alternator with bad bearings. Still got an exhaust leak or something going on. I'll check into that a little tomorrow. Oil psi looked good. Fan turned on when it supposed to so the coolant had to be flowing through the engine. Sounds better than it ever has. Going to take it out tomorrow after I do a fluid top off and hopefully everything is ok. I swear if I didn't have issues with this thing it would just mean I didn't have one lol
because if you have been playing in this hobby for any length of time things like this have happened to all of us
Been there done that and have the t-shirt
