Well Dodge Addict, if you remember some wise man once said something about no wrath like that of a woman scorned. Or even just bent out of shape. I'd swear that's what happened to one of my factory motorcycle shop manuals. But just a guess.
Sometimes it's good to be doing something that you actually want to do rather than have to do. Like the time I was overhauling a V8 Studebaker engine. I enjoyed doing that, but had to put it on hold when harvest time came. In the middle of things, I had to pull the 318-3 industrial engine off the combine and overhaul it. I was doing the same basic thing but I didn't enjoy it one bit because (1) I was forced to do it and (2) I was under a time deadline to get it done.
The engine was using a lot of oil and producing lots of blow by. The first clue something was wrong was when I found pices of piston skirt in the oil pan. The second thing was when the skirts of 6 of the 8 pistons literally fell to pieces when pulled out of the cylinder. And not just little dinky pieces, but pieces the size of nickles and quarters. Two of the exhaust valve seats were recessed something fierce, like around 1/8"-3/16". The amazing thing is it would start right up and other than using lots of oil, ran smoothly, quietly and produced adequate power.
I'm going to build a hauler using the Dodge L700 cab & a modified version of the Ford bed to look like the factory backed racers haulers
My wife says I'm addicted to Dodge trucks
Here's two of five of these that I haven't opened yet
The trial fit ain't bad This frame will get a resin cast C800 or 60's Sweptline CrewCab & the second one will be fitted to the cab & sleeper in the pic
Here's what I built today to organize my cars better Being HillBilly (Scottish HillBilly)it's built entirely out of used wood
Some of my still sealed doubles
Here's a L700 I got Saturday in the mail just for this chassis
I buy enough at a time that they send them to me in the AMT boxes they get them in I figured it was only fitting to line the shelves with them
I fitted the cab/sleeper combo to transporter #2
The front axle & wheelbase is set now & I've decided that this is the drag car transporter 
I got this FireTruck cheap & figured out it was missing a few parts so I decided to build a FireHouse Race Team It'll be a flat type using parts from a haulaway trailer mainly the the deck pieces for a platform that lowers to the ground & is a Hauler Home to boot
Here's some of the progress on the firetruck
