The Story:
Just finished the latest rebuild on my 200 with my dad and we broke it in the first 600 miles on the way to Indianapolis for the Falcon Nationals. We were so close on time we set the timing just hours before we got on the road. I personally think we were lucky that it finally gave up about forty miles after Wendover. There is no way we would have found such a good Mechanic in our area. If anyone needs a mechanic in the Salt Lake area you should look up Lynn Devore. He lives in the Tooele area down Erda Way. He does everything from our old 60 Falcon to new big rigs.
Anyway, we broke down 40 miles out of Wendover and by some miracle found Lynn. We had been overheating across the pass from wendover to Salt Lake. We thought we should keep going because it wouldn't have goten any cooler sitting around, this was about 1:00 pm. At the 39 mile mark we got some horrible knock so we decided to pull off the road and let it cool down.
About 30 minutes later we started it up again after the temerature cooled down below 170F. When we started it the knock was gone but we had a bigger problem, one of our pistons was back firing.
Well at 1:45 we were stuck on the hotest stretch of salt flat that you could imagine, and stupid us, we poured our last two bottles of water in the radiator before we figured out the radiator wasn't the problem. Just before 6:00pm we were picked up by Danny the Tow Truck Driver, after sitting in a broken car with no air conditioning in the middle of no were with barely any cell phone reception (every time a semi-truck went by, the signal cut off). Lucky for us we had repacked the ice chest in Wendover and we sucked down Carrot, Grape, Cherry, Cocktail juice. Yummy.
Danny took us to Lynn and within minutes of getting there we had the valve cover off and found that the rear section of rocker arm shaft had snapped off at the bolt; so our exhaust valve on cylinder six was stuck closed and backfiring into the intake. HaHA, our major breakdown was just this little thing we could replace in no time, or so we thought. Next morning we were up in Salt Lake city and had a new 144 rocker arm assembly, we started the engine back up by lunch, but to our dismay the top end was getting no oil. No wonder the the last rocker arm snapped. By dinner we had the engine pulled and found that the camshaft bearing had melted and sealed up the oil passages. HOLY @#$% can anyone tell me why we were overheating? By dinner the next day we had replaced the cam bearings and reassembled the engine. On day three the engine was back in the Car. It was too late to get to Indianapolis, but atleast we had a way to get home.
We wanted to avoid the heat of the day so when we got our car back we went back to the motel and went right to bed. We got up at 1:00am loaded the car had breakfast (food was good, but if you want it quick don't go to the Country Pride diner in Tooele) by 2:30am we were on the road again. We tryed our miles per gallon at a gas station just before Lovelock. 21.954 mpg!!!!! the car was loaded with enough tools to rebuild the engine, enough clothes to get three people to Indianapolis and back to Tahoe, the three people me, my father, and my brother, and a pretty good sized cooler. I have no Idea what we did wrong!
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The Problem:
Hottest part of the day and we are traveling through Dayton just outside of Carson City. Uh oh
car is overheating again. Were going over a good size hill and it knocks, the temperature gauge is reading 230-240F were abouts. All the way home which luckily was only about 50 miles at that point, the speedometer reads 35-40. We managed to keep it at 200F area the rest of the way.
The Queston:
What do I need to do to keep my daily driver cool at highway speeds? I was thinking about an Aluminum Gryphon Radiator.
Here's what we got:
Initial advance 24 degrees
'65 200 block bored .030 over; decked .040
'78 head milled .060; ported; 3 angle valve job; dual valve springs
280 cam running; rhoads v-max lifters
Static CR comes up to 9.3 (Our best guess)
Copper Radiator comes out of a 289 mustang
P.S. This novel I just wrote sounds like the Song Albequerquie by Weird Al. "All I was really trying to say is I... HATE... SOURCROUT!"
Just finished the latest rebuild on my 200 with my dad and we broke it in the first 600 miles on the way to Indianapolis for the Falcon Nationals. We were so close on time we set the timing just hours before we got on the road. I personally think we were lucky that it finally gave up about forty miles after Wendover. There is no way we would have found such a good Mechanic in our area. If anyone needs a mechanic in the Salt Lake area you should look up Lynn Devore. He lives in the Tooele area down Erda Way. He does everything from our old 60 Falcon to new big rigs.
Anyway, we broke down 40 miles out of Wendover and by some miracle found Lynn. We had been overheating across the pass from wendover to Salt Lake. We thought we should keep going because it wouldn't have goten any cooler sitting around, this was about 1:00 pm. At the 39 mile mark we got some horrible knock so we decided to pull off the road and let it cool down.



Danny took us to Lynn and within minutes of getting there we had the valve cover off and found that the rear section of rocker arm shaft had snapped off at the bolt; so our exhaust valve on cylinder six was stuck closed and backfiring into the intake. HaHA, our major breakdown was just this little thing we could replace in no time, or so we thought. Next morning we were up in Salt Lake city and had a new 144 rocker arm assembly, we started the engine back up by lunch, but to our dismay the top end was getting no oil. No wonder the the last rocker arm snapped. By dinner we had the engine pulled and found that the camshaft bearing had melted and sealed up the oil passages. HOLY @#$% can anyone tell me why we were overheating? By dinner the next day we had replaced the cam bearings and reassembled the engine. On day three the engine was back in the Car. It was too late to get to Indianapolis, but atleast we had a way to get home.
We wanted to avoid the heat of the day so when we got our car back we went back to the motel and went right to bed. We got up at 1:00am loaded the car had breakfast (food was good, but if you want it quick don't go to the Country Pride diner in Tooele) by 2:30am we were on the road again. We tryed our miles per gallon at a gas station just before Lovelock. 21.954 mpg!!!!! the car was loaded with enough tools to rebuild the engine, enough clothes to get three people to Indianapolis and back to Tahoe, the three people me, my father, and my brother, and a pretty good sized cooler. I have no Idea what we did wrong!




The Problem:
Hottest part of the day and we are traveling through Dayton just outside of Carson City. Uh oh

The Queston:
What do I need to do to keep my daily driver cool at highway speeds? I was thinking about an Aluminum Gryphon Radiator.
Here's what we got:
Initial advance 24 degrees
'65 200 block bored .030 over; decked .040
'78 head milled .060; ported; 3 angle valve job; dual valve springs
280 cam running; rhoads v-max lifters
Static CR comes up to 9.3 (Our best guess)
Copper Radiator comes out of a 289 mustang
P.S. This novel I just wrote sounds like the Song Albequerquie by Weird Al. "All I was really trying to say is I... HATE... SOURCROUT!"