292 block - 11/28/09 10:49 AM
hello everybody I am new poster I have been reading for a year or so I truely do love the I6 I have two at the time both are stock.292 /230. I first learned about I6's from my grandfather in the North Ga Mountains. He had a 48 chevy 2 ton with a 216 i think and a 58 1/2 ton apache with a 235, he also drove a school bus all over those mountains for 39 years. he also had a 76 f-150 4x4 with a 300 I6 ford. He told me one day when he was about 89 years old I qoute him " I got more respect for a cheverolet six cylinder than any other engine there are " coming from a man who spent his entire life behind a engine of some sort from the model A Ford strip down in the thirties all the way to 2005 before he quit driving. in his later years he he mostly drove his ford tractor around his farm. I believe in my heart HE knew a thing or two. MY question is this my 292 has cracks around the freeze plugs just like LEO Santucci book said. can this be fixed for a reliable street engine with 4bl carb/lump port head/small cam/ it is for a 72 chevy 4x4 a torque monster of sort? any advise is greatly appreciated. Oh yeah would like to be interviewd as a possible member to the organization.
thank you again AMS
thank you again AMS