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FINALLY GOT-ER-DUN!!!
I've been battering Spat with PMs for the last couple months. He's been an astoundingly good sounding board.
My automotive experience (about 35 years) is with the restoration of MGs, building Ford race engines and about 10 years of rebuilding Ferrari gearboxes.
The final couple days of this low-tech 2.4's engine rebuild had my butt kicked trying to sort it out, but it finally came around and my hat is off to Spat for all of his excellent suggestions.
The motor fired right up, but the lash adjusters were very loud even after 20 minutes. I re-primed them and reinstalled, and they were still loud. I also had some cooling issues that was resolved by bleeding the system of air. The lash adjusters finally quieted down after a couple of miles, and the motor sounds like a sewing machine now, and the Pickup finally has some "pickup"..... It's way stronger than it was before I rebuilt it, and I shouldn't have any problem pulling four 700 pound round hay bales on my 14 foot tandem trailer.
Only thing left to do is to replace the oil pump when my car buck$ account get recharged. I clearanced the old pump and added a washer to the relief spring (old MG trick to get the pressure up a few pounds) but I'm not happy with the oil pressure hovering at 50 when cold and 45 hot. When I pulled the washer out, it dropped to 40#, so I'm confident that one of those Z style pumps will improve the oil pressure and maybe even help keep it a little cooler in the summer, since 50% of the engine heat in this motor is cooled by oil.
The coolant temp is staying right at 185* whether idling or driving in stop and go traffic, and all I found on the harddrive magnet at the first oil change was some ring fuzz.
THANKS TO EVERYONE ON THIS FORUM THAT PITCHED IN WITH SOME REALLY GREAT ASSISTANCE.
GREYBEARD
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