Hi Howard - farhad called and told me you wanted to talk about getting my car to your party. I will try, but after the first engine start last week where I finally had all of the water leaks fixed and could let it really run up to temperature, it seems that i have one more leak - unfortunately it's internal and I've now wound up with water in the oil!.
So, I need to pull the intake manifold (i hope it's there!! and not elsewhere!) and re-install. check the heads, drop the pan, get coffee can full of oil and put oil pick-up in there, pull distributor and crank oil pump to flush the whole system. pull some main caps & rod caps and check them, and then put the damn thing back together again.
so we'll see!!
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