Kenne bell engine Find

Maybe missed it but what valve covers came with it if any?

 

It's sopost to be the chrome 430 style with the kenne bell sticker but we're missing, will be looking for a set once I know the engine will be ok also will look for a thermo quad 1000cfm,stinger s4 system and do everything as in the paperwork that came with it

 

Another update, it was the oil pump that locked up and caused the pin to break , Saturday I will install another timing cover

 

Was that the KB oil pump timing cover ?

 

Yes the one that came on it it ran for about 5 seconds and lost the spark it turned hard when I primed it but thought that might have been normal but now there is no movement in the pump shaft

 

Check and make sure you can still turn the engine bye the dampener bolt Also. Did you pack the gears with Vaseline ?

 

Very cool Let me know if you need decals

 

I did not pack it didnt want to open it up , I did prime it before trying to start it and had oil to the rockers, the drill did have a hard time turning when priming it but thought that might have been normal with that setup engine turns fine nothing seemed to have been damaged except the distributer gear pin that snapped

 

I've seen cheap crappy roll pins too.

 

Did you put a zinc additive in the oil for break ?

 

I put break in additive in it

 

Update haven't been on in a while, the issue was the oil pump jammed up the gear scrapped a piece of metal off the timing cover and got stuck in the gears, installed a new cover and fixed the issue the engine has about 500 miles on it now and seems to be running good, planning on putting a 107 cam in it come summer time also trans is still working with no issues

 

Pics of engine going in

 

Thanks for the update, good to hear its running

 

Those heads looked like through the rocker shaft tower 430 heads to start with

 

Nice - how's the power?

 

It's not bad less then I would have thought, hopefully a bigger cam will help also need a bigger carb only have a 650cfm on it now

 

Yeah - 650 is way too small!

 

Update as i haven't been on here in awhile installed a kb107 camshaft and sounded amazing thru the 3inch exhaust off the long tube headers how ever it started to miss fire smoking and one of the cylinders were getting oil inside of it, changed valve seals no change, pulled head and piston checked rings all looked good reinstalled everything ran good for 20mins and same thing happened, changed modulator on the trans to see if it was sucking up fluid with no change, ended up putting the original engine back in it until i can take the head to get checked and possibly fixed