Good to hear the leak is fixed. Surely you'll have luck keeping it running. These kind of things happen with engine swaps.
I changed out the Harmonic Balancer and put in my old one and she runs great. NOW to get the radiator replaced and heater core replaced. Radiator is on its way and Heater Core will be later. Not needed right now. 
But I am very happy. She runs really nice and I hear No timing chain rattle. Now I can't wait to get her back on the road and she how she runs with a fresh motor.
Outstanding...that is an excellent update.GREAT News
any chance it will be revived with v8? loved your build if you do give up on it (which i dont think you should!!!!!) would there be a 4.10 F/R set available? or just a 4.10 front? more concerned about that one... but shipping might be killer...Would love to do a V8 but I need to find one that would work for me. Also If I found one I would put what I have in this one to the V8. I do not want to let it go I honestly don't But I just replaced the chains and guides and then this. Its just very frustrating. By the way my Wife was in the house when we both heard the chain rattle. I will NEVER forget that rattle till the day I die LOL. I heard it when she was running and now again it will be a ghost for me LOLnooooooooo!!!!!!!! dont let it go!!!!
yep, we all have those moments... i can feel your frustration from (many many) miles away... as long as this one lives on (jn some way, shape, form), ill be at ease would be interesting to do a failure analysis and see if the pistons smacked valves, or if it was low speed enough and luckyenough that when the chaiin let go it didnt damagevalves, altho unlikely,as sohc is interference engine... maybe with a JY chain shell be running again if pistons lookalright?
hopeto see the sport back up and running, and you back on the trails though... hope everything works out one way or another (im gonna get you get you... to make the sport live on in some way) really liked this build, so hoping it gets revived, or lives on in another X!
Exactly, now trust me, just like all truck work, you'll be screaming and cussing at it while ya do it, but damn will you be glad ya did it in the end! But as long as it's all giddied up properly, that SOHC ain't even going to get close to letting you down! Why even if my chains do act up, I'd rather fix mine than swap in a V8, it would literally be just for a nicer sound since the SOHC and the 5.0 are almost identical in power overall!
Been learning from the best, you included!
