ok, so a while ago with my ol' HQ, thought I'd rip the diff out and weld her up for some fun, apparently diff centers are quite alot heavier than I was expecting so I ended up dropping the whole center strait on the nads... not a pleasant experiance I'll tell you that! then only a few days ago, I'm around at a mates, rebuilding a decent holley for his statesman, well after giving it all new seals and such, we pull off the old rochester and start fitting up the holley, after a fair bit of messing around with gas system, fire up the engineonly to hear a real bad knocking, so off comes the carby, the manifold, nothing... so off comes the passenger side head, nothing, so off with the drivers side, and clearly there's a washer mashed into the 1st piston, so not being a power house of an engine we figure we'll just get the washer out and bolt it all back 2gether, so out come the chisel and a hammer, bit of light tapping later out pops the washer, and strait down the valley and into the oil pick up... so what started as a quick "lets replace the carb" turned into a completely stripped down 308... why couldn't it just be easy? haha
I did exactally the same thing rebuilding my carb and a swear i was being carefull, but ohwell teach me to use a rag next time
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180b sedan daily (needs some TLC)
180B sss (under restoration)
180b Wagon daily
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