So having not messed with the engine at all since it has come into my possession has been a very sore spot for me hahahaha! Meaning Im getting anxious to tear it down. So I did some smiling and dialing and I got ahold of my good friend Bruce, he hooked me up with a cherry picker through a friend of his. I then got ahold of another good friend of mine David Bolinger, he had told me a year or two ago I could use an engine stand of his if I ever got a 440 to build... I took David up on his offer! So me and Bruce headed out to get the cherry picker. We got to his buddys house and there was a 65 Plymouth Barracuda sitting in the drive way. Looked in the garage and there was the 273 that went into it. The car was solid and would make an awesome quick project for someone who was into those cars as it had all the parts to go back on it. The body works was done and needed paint. So back to the task we got the cherry picker loaded up in the back of Bruces truck and some friends of his friends showed up along with this other guys sister in-law who was about 10 or 11 months pregnant... she was ready to bust! Anyways so this girl did not shut the heck up... she was just steady complaining about another one of Bruces friends her husband and we got sucked into listening to this chick for over an hour!!! It was so bad that the brother in-law and his friend left us hanging with this prego chick... we got pawned off on to this girl hahahahaha! I dont blame those dudes for ditching us after listening to this girl! Anyways we finaly make a clean break and head over to Davids house where we talked mopar for a while and engine builds. David has a sweet 70 RT Chally 383 FC7 with white int and a shaker. Along with an FC7 Demon his handle on cuda-challenger.com is FC7Freak. Go figure. Great guy I sometimes hang with him and another mopar guy around this area here in Clarksille TN and Hopkinsville KY as I live on the TN/KY border. Ok so David hooks me up with the engine stand and as we are kinda wraping things up the wife calls and says she is hungry... so that automaticly take priority and David who knows my wife understood why we had to leave right then... hahahaha! We had been gone at this point about 3.5-4 hours, on a trip that I didnt figure would get me back home in more than 2.5 hours... Once we got home and ate we get out the cherry picker and engine stand and unloaded the 440 from the back of my truck hooked it up on the engine stand and began tearing down the front portions of the engine. We got the AC/PS and water pump taken off and called it a night. Below are some pics of this evenings action:
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