Ah, he finally got it broken in. Darn near as bad as a Cummins on break-in.
I got worried, for no reason of course, about my first /6 so I overhauled it at 166,000 miles. It had been a well maintained car owned by a vacuum cleaner salesman and when I miked the journals there was less than 1/2 of
1/1000 of an inch wear. Bore didn't even have a ridge, so I honed them, popped in new rings, bearings, timing set and a rebuiilt milled head (0.090"). Then I installed a low restriction exhaust and rejetted the carb (the big BBS single) and started kicking some 2 barrel V-8 butt.Budd