Steady progress, sometimes one step forward and 2 steps back

Evening Folks,

Continued on with reassembly,  today I had a bit of a set back after checking the compression numbers and I have discussed that down below.

The cam covers are installed, the front breather cover is installed, and the crossover pipe is ready to install.

Ready to put the cam covers back on, we used Cometic cam cover gaskets and they had to be cut to fit at the back.

I thought this was interesting, what appears to be the original coil with it's label. the label was pretty dirty and coming undone.

Label removed and cleaned

Coil cleaned up and the label glued back on 

Adding oil.

Almost ready to start but I need to get the gaskets for the crossover pipe seen towards the back of the engine.

At this point I decided to turn the engine over and after a false start where I discovered I had removed the lead to the starter we were finally able to check the compression. With the engine cold and WOT I went down the line with Jan giving me a hand on the starter switch and throttle.  The compression figures were all in the 130-135 range except #4 which came back at 120. Dang!  Rechecked it a couple of times, added oil and no change, going through my notes revealed that #4 intake valve was a challenge to set so I'm going to take the cam cover off when I get some more shims and see iif that's the problem.  A bit of a PITA!
Tomorrow I'll work to get the ignition harness put back together.

Cheers,
Lynn


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