[Stuart]

Finally got my engine together today and started it up.

Last fall on the way home from a car show, for some reason a couple rocker studs unscrewed themselves, allowing the rockers to rotate around, and the pushrods ovaled out the guide holes in the heads. After talking it over with my machinist, we decided it was best to get another set of heads (I've had problems with these heads before, and decided that it was a better idea to start from scratch instead of fixing them yet again.)

I sourced another set of correct heads, had the machinist rebuild them, and what with work and everything else I just didn't find time to get the thing bolted back together until now.

Not that it was particularly difficult to do or anything, but it's still a good feeling to hear the car start up and run like it's supposed to again, you know?

'61 Bonneville, 425A tripower/348hp/4 speed manual.

[Stuart]

Finally got my engine together today and started it up.

Last fall on the way home from a car show, for some reason a couple rocker studs unscrewed themselves, allowing the rockers to rotate around, and the pushrods ovaled out the guide holes in the heads. After talking it over with my machinist, we decided it was best to get another set of heads (I've had problems with these heads before, and decided that it was a better idea to start from scratch instead of fixing them yet again.)

I sourced another set of correct heads, had the machinist rebuild them, and what with work and everything else I just didn't find time to get the thing bolted back together until now.

Not that it was particularly difficult to do or anything, but it's still a good feeling to hear the car start up and run like it's supposed to again, you know?

'61 Bonneville, 425A tripower/348hp/4 speed manual.