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Before I wrote the current engine off and ordered one, I wanted to look at the babbitt and see whether it was salvageable. My thought was that I could get the block machined locally and not have to send it off if the babbitt was still good. I wasn't optimistic given the condition of the deck and...

I posted about my engine woes recently, and am now on the hunt for a replacement engine. I have been reading through the older posts looking at opinions and experiences and the one common thing I have noticed is that there doesn't seem to be an A engine specialist within 400 miles of me on the...

After looking over the cracked head (posted elsewhere) I went back to the block with my shop vac and scraped the deck to remove what I hoped was carbon and instead turned out to be pitting around all four cylinders. The whole surface surrounding cylinder 1 is a mess, and in the first photo you...

Without going into the whole story, I recently inherited a '29 closed cab A pickup. It broke down on the 35 mile trip back to my house, and I hoped that it was a radiator problem, although I feared it might be something worse. When I went to drain the oil, out came a quart of water, and I knew...