Well,the damper is a standard Ford FE Damper, no fluid there.
The block is beyond repair. The main front main bearing support is gone, and the counterweight has hammered the block wall into the sleeves on cylinder 1 and 5 so bad that I can not even get the pistons out.I guess I will leave them just there. The part which feeds the
oil to the filter and back and into the
oil gallery is partly gone too.
It is absolutely not possible to get the block repaired, it would need a reconstruction of many parts and that would just cost too much.
It is a meal of aluminum crumbles all over, wherever you touch something falls off.
I am considering an iron block this time after I have seen what the aluminum cast looks like inside.
And the culprit , the eagle crank (I didn't choose it, Keith offered it with the short block package) looks to me very fragile between the con rod journal and the counterweight. Only very little meat in place there.
I think that this 482Kc engine with the Webers and the aluminum flywheel must have had an incredible torque and that puts a lot of stress on the crank. Maybe cast steel is just not good enough.
I remember when I had the Holley on the engine the reaction was much more more gradual, not as brutal as with the webers.