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.The only Holden i ever had was an EJ wagon, When dad stopped driving he passed it to me .
(i did have 3 Chevvies ). Any way the EJ was a country car and in reasonable nick except it blew clouds of smoke
and continually oiled up a couple of plugs ...............
So i pulled the grey apart to have a bo-peep and as well as the rings worn out , 2 pistons were cracked around
the oil lands. .................
In my shed were 2 greys i had been given, so pulled them apart to check for bits.............
One was a Std bore , so 2 pistons were earmarked for the EJ............
The other was 40 thou over .......so i took the rings for the EJ , filing them down to fit the std bore ................
Then picked the best of all the bearing shells and used them with the best shells going in the rods..............
The timing case seal was leaking, so pulled that out and shortened the tension spring ,cleaned up the seal area on the crank,
and whacked that back in.................cleaned the spray jet for the timing gear lube..............
A quick clean up and rough lap of the valves. fitted some of those umberella type valve seals i had kicking around
and threw it all back together with the old gasgets and a couple of tubes of gasget goo................
So the over haul cost me time only...............
Had that car for another ten years, till some one rammed it in the side and sent it to god.......................
So for me the old Grey donk didnt do too bad at all..............
........................Billy....................