Since I sold my purple Barracuda bracket race car as a rolling chassis, I decided to put the 500 inch wedge in the B-3 project car.

With the engine on the stand, I was deciding whether or not to freshen it with new bearings and such before installing it in the car. The engine showed no signs of being down on power, but it did have a lot of passes on it. Then I grabbed it by the balancer to move it and the crank moved about 40 thousandths. This meant at the very least the engine would need a thrust bearing.

During WW II, airplane manufacturers used midget mechanics to do work in spaces too confined for normal sized people. It's too bad there's nobody small enough to go inside an engine and do work. If there were people that small I'd hire one to change my thrust bearing without pulling the oil pan to save time.

But since there aren't people that small that I know of, I'm tearing the engine down the old fashioned way to freshen it up.