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| More NOS 427 Stories - ATTN Davy Gurley |
| By Royce Peterson - 01/15/2002 9:22:26 PM; IP 152.163.201.207 |
Jack Tarner called me tonight to discuss progress on my latest GTE 427 engine (cross bolted hydraulic sideoiler) and I asked about Ralph Alex with reference to your posts a couple days ago. He related a story of how he and Ralph were at a Ford Parts Distribution Warehouse auction and they both bid on a lot of 16 NOS 406 engine short block assemblies. These were not rebuilt, they were late service replacement short blocks with pistons, camshaft, timing chain etc. The blocks are possesing all 427 attributes except no crossbolts, although the provisions are there as in your "2 bolt 427".
It turned out that only two sealed bids were placed on that lot. Ralph was the winner at $430.00 each. Jack had bid $94.00. It still seemed like a good deal for Ralph until he discovered that they were all locked up tight and no amount of penetrating oil applied to the rings seemed to help.
Ralph sold most of the engines for $430.00 to friends in the area who brought them to Jack to be repaired. It turned out that they had been assembled with Lubriplate (white lithium grease) which had dried out and kept the cranks from rotating. In one case Jack was offered and received one of the engines for fixing the other one belonging to the same person.
Fun to hear the stories about the good old days.
Royce Peterson |
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