Well, it looks like the Fairlane may be back here for a while. It came back with a couple of leaks, the main one being at the back of the engine. I’ve replaced the rear main seal and the chrome oil pan with an OE one. It’s better now than when it first came in but it’s definitely leaking at the rear main seal and I can’t get it to stop.

It also started losing oil pressure...... it does fine at idle.....45 PSI on a hot idle, but at 1800 RPM it drops to 25 PSI.

Then I had the valve cover off yesterday and found this. Several of the roller tip rockers are riding on the side of the rollers. There is a lot of slop in the push rods/guide plates and I suspect that either the guide plates are junk or they are designed for bigger pushrods.







So it looks like I get to tell the owner that the engine needs to come back out and see what he wants to do as he was the one who built the engine. Yup another fun day kind of reminds me why I retired from doing customers cars.


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