Thread: 500 Caddy/G Body Swap

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I’m still waiting on the body shop to get back to me, so I went ahead and tore the 500 down today. I was a little apprehensive about what I was going find as it would not turn over when I got several years ago and had to oil the cylinders and work it a bit to get it free.

As it turns out one cylinder had gotten some water in it it’s kind of a shame as with the lack of cylinder wear it probably could have gotten by with a set of rings. The good news is the block and crank are both standard and will the block should clean up at .030 and the crank at .010.

I’ll get the freeze plugs out and the 4 soft plugs in the oil galleys (those I’ll tap for pipe plugs) and drill and tap for a heater hose nipple under the thermostat housing then send it out to the machine shop for cleaning and checking for cracks. Then the fun of ordering parts.