Recent content by Bill Playfoot

Hope it is found.

Prayers sent

The space between the cylinders bores is 1/2 inch.

And the last two pictures

I think I have pictures of what you want to see. The cylinder ridge is minimal. My finger nail barely grabs it. The head pictured is the left side. I don't have the measuring tool this weekend so I can't get accurate measurements that were asked.

I forgot to include the picture after I scraped the carbon off. There is still a little ridge of carbon but most is removed.

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The engine is a C5 not a C6. It is hard to read the casting number in the picture. I measured the cylinders tonight also.

The valve springs are painted yellow wherever I wiped them when I removed them from the heads

I don't think the rockers are adjustable. I will look at them Wednesday night. I am a auto body repairer not a mechanic. I thought this might be a fun project to do because I have never rebuilt an engine before. I am not a good photographer either.

I will get better pictures Wednesday night. Thanks for all of the information.

The 390 was in a 1966 Thunderbird. I don't know if it was original to the car or not. The numbers on the block mean nothing to me as this is the first engine I am rebuilding

Because it has the Fomoco stamp I know it is a factory camshaft. What I would like to know is the info regarding the other stampings.

Why would the camshaft that I removed from my 390 be stamped like it is?

The distributor in my 390 was seized in the block. The distributor is broken where the cap goes on so I was able to be a tad rough on it to remove it. I soaked it for the past week with SeaFoam Deep Creep. Then I used a big pipe wrench and a ball peen hammer to persuade it to loosen. Took a few...