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I know that I need to see it; but I'm with the last days left of my magnificent Newfoundland's life " Tugboat "; he has always raced on the dash of my Motorhome "! He's touched my soul like no other pet before. He helped me understand what matters more than ever before

First I would like to share my appreciation to everyone on our forum and their positive advice ; I listed My Beautiful Shelby here first ; it's in our FOR SALE category , and if anything I missed or should correct on either the posting or the car ( trunk pictures to follow) please bring it up !       Thanks Jim

I'll first ask Bill how much he has 6S852 insured for! Then I'm going to use my two headed heads only coin to flip to see who is going to do this ( I'm calling heads I win) ; I'm spoiled as 1680 runs perfect with no smoke or oil burning from its assembly!  So Scott can you please come over and do this for us ??  I know Randy can't wait to try it !!

Had to ad a quart of oil again; and it still wasn't at full " line! The smoke is a real pretty light blue like the lighter blue on my rear Gabriel shocks! And those plugs; wet with oil and black !

I removed the PCV and blocked it! Compression is high and fine! Number five spark plug looked like a coal factory in a oil storm ? Yuk! Still smoking like this picture; mostly drivers side

Bills coming over at 10 am and I will let everyone know " blow by blow " !

What address and building did I go to By the LA airport in 70/71 to buy my Goodyear racing tires from Shelby for my Datsun 2000??

Thanks to all; tomorrow I'm going to block off his PCV. Valve and drive it some? How far to realize if it's changed? 3 miles? or? ; I wish I had leak down tools but I will run his compression in each cylinder and hopefully not any too different or low ! After all we've read here; the third will be an inspection of the intake manifold gaskets if the others check out ok ? Opinions??!

My good friend Bill just had his numbers matching engine " professionally?" Rebuilt by a company in California! $10,500 later plus r&r cost  it's smoking on acceleration not as much on deceleration has been Fowling 4 to 5 plugs and it's gone a quart low !! They ran it on their Dyno and did a break-in procedure! He is up here in Idaho with me and now having this engine in his shelby ;  he's looking for help!!  I'm thinking they misaligned the rings or during the break in procedure on the Dyno something was damaged but your opinions are very needed here !  We have not checked the compression but it cranks over evenly with each stroke and it runs With acceptable power ! Changed oil twice with recommended oil and two sets of spark plugs and they are still fowling with oil on them!?

Bob thanks for the wonderful perspective on my plates patina! It was put on April of 1966 when I was only 15 years old ! Never removed ( just carefully masked) even when chassis restoration down to core support and aprons! So I'm leaving it alone! I'm loving it wearing its years patina now! It's just right this way!

Great to have our forum for education and bad potholes in the road like this guy ( Thanks ( sorry this happened to you)

I'm loving the Black still on the SFM plate! Im jealous as mine is graying! Any one successful in re darkening this black on yours ??

Randy if you're ever inclined to map out which exhaust is next it would probably have cut my time in half! I've got a BUZZ now not a click" tick or a "tack " !!

Thanks so much Randy for your help on the valve adjustment method! Just did it by hand with a socket and bar " wow " what a workout! My valves have never sounded so good! My backs sore and I need a shower after that !!

I'm sure as many of us know that the stock pinch friction 5/8th nut will lose its ability to hold your gap ; especially if you've Made some 6000 + rpm shifts ! So being a watchmaker I applied some horological spidey sense! I found some thin locking nuts that take a 9/16th socket ; still short enough to fit on a stock stud over the stock 5/8ths ; adjust your gap with  the top 9/16th to tighten  little too much ; then loosen with a 5/8ths socket as it  fits over the smaller top nut and counter clockwise to adjust ; the two tighten together and say goodbye to anymore adjustments ! Better than polylocks as there is no clearance issues !,