Springfield Auto Machine

I picked up the cleaned sus­pen­sion parts today, while there, was pleased to see that the eighth pis­ton was installed, oil pump was rebuilt and the lower end was com­plete with the oil pan installed.

All of the bear­ings, con­nect­ing rods have now been installed, the oil/vacuum pump has been rebuilt and the lower end is now complete.

In fact, they also began to paint the motor for me too.

Dickie was kind enough to take some pic­tures for me as he pro­gressed and are posted here.

I dropped off the rocker arm shafts that had finally arrived and they will prob­a­bly begin work on the top end on Monday.

I ordered a new fuel pump today, and we real­ized that we are going to need a fuel pump pushrod too. I had for­got­ten that the old pushrod was rusted into the block and was dam­aged when we removed it.

I spent some time run­ning around pick­ing up parts.

I retrieved the rear drums that I had turned and the axle shafts with the new bear­ings pressed on from NAPA.

Also got the dif­fer­en­tial cover gas­ket from Advanced Auto Parts and took every­thing back to the shop.

After work, Paul and I assem­bled the rear axle, installing the dif­fer­en­tial cover and axle shafts, all with new gas­kets and then pres­sure washed the whole assem­bly in prepa­ra­tion for paint­ing before we put it back in the car. At this point, we have invested approx­i­mately 210 labor hours to get where we are.

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