Re: th400 into my 74. help????

["amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Simms" <MrSimms7@xxxx> wrote:
> sure have...I've already shook off the nuts to both of the snubbers 
> and lost one...bent a spring...blew off the water neck and stripped 
> the bolt hole in the intake...and lost both of the bolts that hold 
> the trans mount to the trans...
> 
> all of that...and the cam doesn't draw enough vac. to open the 
> secondaries...tho I have springs for that on the way...along w/ new 
> snubbers (using some old POS lakewood snubbers for the moment)...and 
> all of the above has been fixxed...
> 
> its only been running 4 days...2 of which it sat at my buddies house 
> right after an alignment when I blew off the water neck...took the 
> whole next day to gather everything up to fix it...
> 
> 
> the car feels good now...'cept the motor seems lacking...maybe after 
> readjusting the valves and gettin the secondary spring swapped it'll 
> wake up...but I think I've got a wore out ring...(only thing that 
> hasn't been replaced in the motor)...

Man that sure sounds like a bad run of luck. Why weren't the rings replaced if the motor was open?
"Doc"