Fw: SV: 1962 Plymouth Sport Fury

["Gary H." <62to65mopar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Knud-erik sent in an update on his 1962. 
http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/knud-erik62.html

He had completed installing the engine he obtained in his last report.  His update is a good story of the "trials and tribulations" of getting one of these old Mopars back together. It takes perseverance and lots of time and patience. 
We won't mention money! Good going Knud-erik. :) 

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Knud-Erik Bergstein Holm 
  
>  Things went a bit wrong, I managed to start up the engine with little
>  effort. So far so good!
>  
>  Then it started smoking oil smoke, a lot! Took it for a spin, on the road
>  figuring it needed to burn it of. The good news are that it is a monster, I
>  have never driven anything like it, it spins the wheels at 1 and 2 gear, and
>  goes sideways, at the same time. I am trying to make it run easy and normal! I
>  am a bit scared of this thing I have put together. The bad news are that it
>  smoked so much that the other cars stopped and pulled over to clear the
>  road. I then came home and pulled the plugs, 4 of them were wet with oil,
>  the others rich in carbon. Decided that I had to pull the pistons, did so by
>  taking the oil pan off, intake, headers and cylinder heads, then pushrods with
>  piston and found that the piston rings were mounted on with the gaps in a
>  straight vertical line, 2 rings were also installed upside down not
>  compressing. Not my doing!!!
>  
>  I then bought thick gaskets all around, what been uninstalled. Installed
>  everything, fired it up and it worked fine, no oil smoke, no spark plugs
>  oiled! Still smokes, but it's too much gasoline I figure. And it need to get
>  out and run, and then finally tuned by a expert with the proper equipment.
>  Then came December, and its too cold to work on it in my drive way. So I am
>  waiting for the sun to return, but this summer it is going to happen! 

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