Well there have been a couple times where no torque wrench was harmed during a quick tear down and back together . Between runs when one did not get the right pill installed in the fuel system . A close friend of mine ran a Modified tractor that ran a Donavan Hemi with a 8-71 and hilborn injection on Al-KI-Hol For those of you that don't know what a Donavan Hemi is it is a take off of the old Chrysler 392 Hemi and is stroked and bored out to 478 Cu in made out of all Alum. On a Saturday evening he misjudged the fuel set and got her to lean and KEEEERRRRRRRBOOOOOOMMMMMM . put two rods out the side broke the block broke the crank broke the girdle and the pan . This was a big weekend of pulling . He ran Friday evening and won both classes and was looking for the same on Saturday then the big pull Sunday. we got it loaded and back down to my shop and got it out and apart in no time and looking at the damage . The block was some what and easy fix till we saw the other damage , she was cracked from the center main up to the cam bearing . Ok we are going to try this so the welder got switched over to Aluim. patches were cut from 1/2 Aluim. plate and welded in Veed the crack in the web and weld it thru the oil galley . Called the guy that owned Ohio Drill and Dean got us a long 5/16 drill bit to redrill the oil galley . Made a second call to my friend that had one of the best engine shops this side of the big creek and off to dick we went with a new girdle in hand and did a line bore and some other touch up machine work . Back to the shop and installed 8 new sleeves and pistons on a new crank head back on and back to gether back in the tractor and fired up loaded up and made it to the pull and was the last tractor in the class to sign in and last to pull and the only one out the gate both times . they were a neat engine to work on and playen with Ak-KI-HOL you made lots of spare parts . When swapping out pistons between classes it was my CP 745 and my Ingersal butter fly 3/8s impacts . Just like the boys running AA/FD that eat and engine on each pass. You do the right head i'll get the left and you do the bottom end . Three guys doing the work and it's nice to have a GOPHER to help . Guess it was back in 69-70 while at a local watering hole one Friday evening and well on my way to becoming under the alfuence of Ink o Hol the Haley Boys showed up and Dave the oldest came up to me and asked if i was planning on going to the pull on Saturday evening and if so to have my tractor down to the Ford Dealer to load and they would haul me down on there semi. And i said ok and we head a few more to the point it was a good thing i was driving because i was in no condition to walk . got home somewhere around 3:30 and died . At 6 i was work up by the phone and it was Dave telling me to get down there just as fast as my Road Runner could get me there i had and engine to build so they could take that tractor to the pull. I got there around 8 with a vary fuzzy head that was pounding and there lay a Ford 427 in KIT form all cleaned up fresh from the machine shop all new pieces and parts and a Cockshutte 40 in kit form . By 1:30 it was together hanging over the tractor while Dave and his brother Dale were building the motor mounts and doing the rest of the fab work , by 3 i was doing the final settings on a running engine , at 4 it was out behind the round top doing test pulls . They had set someone earlier to get my 450 and get it down to the loading dock when i ran home to change and head for the pulls . Here again no torque wrench was harmed . and yep she was a winner . Back then that was my Day job as a performance tech for a large local Ford dealer that ran two dealer cars on the strip with the Ford Drag club .
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