http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/

As Texas is having a drought, I bet the TCEQ will be real unhappy with the lot of you.

In case you flunked or ignored chemistry, hydrocarbons and volatile organic chemicals are carcinogenic and mutagenic; that is: You and your neighbors could die from having your organs eaten up by your own cells, and your and your neighbors children could be born with three eyes and and a disposition to other odd ailments and adverse psychological phenomenon.

Then there are the groundwater civil laws [Federal and State; even in Texas] that make you liable [the Feds and State clean it up and then make you pay] for the cleanup of what you illegally introduced into the public domain; ie, the ground water.

Then there are the criminal penalties for INTENTIONALLY introduction a hazardous substance into the public domain; ie, the ground water.

And any of you can belittle me if you want, but remember, it was us Congress and the various State Legislatures that passed these laws in the 1960’s.

Too many of the younger generation take clean safe potable drinking for granted. Like the lot of you.

Jonathon Pugsley
homebasedphilosphy@getresponse.com
http://www.marketingmergeonline.com

1) Thankfully Sean’s not doing anything to the bottom end so there’s no need for access to it.

2) I’m a huge HF advocate and fan, but in my experience their rotating engine stands aren’t worth $50. I actually had two I inherited from my father (who never got around to using ‘em), and neither would hold a 350 without bending dangerously. Hell, I couldn’t even get one to hold a 1.6l from a CRX. So I cut ‘em up for steel.

2) The engine lift and load balancer in the pics are mine. I loaned ‘em to Sean for the job, so his outlay for these (other than the PITA of retrieving ‘em from and returning ‘em to my storage unit) was $0.

3) He mentions $20 in the post, but I know for a fact that he found all the parts laying around his shop and mine, so his total outlay for the rig was $0.

4) You’ll see later why Sean is pinching his pennies. $50 will just about buy the sweet black valve covers he scored for this rebuild — totally worth the $$, btw, just to not have to clean up the old ones, though they look incredible — and actually *would* buy the $450 replacement intake manifold — when he cleaned the first one up he found a crack. I hope he tells his manifold story in its entirety because it’s a masterpiece of Craigslist, junkyard, and general parts-hunting genius.

Anyway, thought I’d share.

Actually you need both types, one to move the assembled engine around and for the final parts like the flex plate, and the engine stand for the major internal parts. So your dolly is fine for what it does. I made one about 30 years ago from plans in Car Craft, I think - still have it somewhere. It used carriage bolts and a different framing layout, but the concept was pretty similar.

I don’t think I’ve ever bought a new engine stand in my life. First one was from a used tool store, someone used it for maybe an hour. The others we have in the shop all came from Craigslist over the years. Typically $25 for a good used one.