my stalled project..

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fordman67

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well,its been almost two years since I got my 25 tudor...I promptly tore it to pieces and got some of the machine work on the engine done.I am thinking it really needs the mains poured.I was going to ignore it and fit them with no shims as they came apart and hope it lasted a while.
Fast forward to now..We had another daughter a year ago.We already had one who is now 4 yrs old. I very much want the girls to grow up in the t. BUT my progress is nonexistant. I have recently left the restoration shop I helped open 7 yrs ago for a better paying job. I also needed benefits so my wife could stop working outside the home and stay with the girls where she really wanted to be. The daycare was absolutely draining us financially also.
My new job is very demanding of my time so there again..NO progress..
I am thinking of farming my engine/trans build out to a specialty shop.
If the shop were working on the power plant I could concenrate on getting the chassis and body ready and maybe meet my goal of springtime driving.

Am I a bad person for farming this out?
I was going to use Rons in OH..opinions? (i have a friend that they id his a engine very well)
Im hating myself for not getting this done sooner and hope to make up for it now...
 
I'd use Joe Bell over in Tiffin OH. Great work, great guy and it's done right, the way it should be by the one who's name is above the door.
 
Howard Ferland in Jamestown, Indiana pours mains and rods. He does great work and very reasonable. He also does transmissions. Just another option for you....
 
I don't think you should feel bad about farming out work at all. There are people that are retired and have all day but still farm the work out.

When the kids are older you will have time and they can help you. My kids are 7 and 9 they help a little now. After all this is a hobby. Work and family take the priority. At the advice of some people I respect I only buy running cars. Most are either older restorations or orginals that have had some level of repairs. Unfortuntetly I guess your kind of committed at this point since it's torn apart, unless you can get it back together and trade it for something running.
 
Don't feel bad at all. Most people I come into contact with farm out the engine work. I do too when it comes to certain situations.
 
Very few of us have the equipment to pour babbit and do cylinder boring and some of those specialty jobs.
Get it done and get the children involved.
I started my two sons very early and now that they are in their early 30's, they get more involved in T events and Ts than I do.
 
oliverguy said:
I don't think you should feel bad about farming out work at all. There are people that are retired and have all day...
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LMFAO... I'm retired and I now have less time for my projects than when I was working. Honey do this, Honey do that... My Honey Do list has grown since I retired.:eek:
 
I farmed out the rebuild of my Model A engine 50 years ago. Good thing--it needed bored and new Babbitt. But I scrimped and saved (had one little girl at the time) the $140 the machine shop wanted for the job. 1 week after I got it back I was driving the car. WHAT A DEAL! I've never touched it since and it and it still runs great.
 
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