Big block or small block?

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Originally Posted by patrickt

It's taken me years to get my FE not to leave drips. Once you've figured out the sources of the leaks, and learned the tricks, it's not as tough as you think. Unless there's something really bad wrong with one, I think I could seal it off in less than a year. When it comes to reliability, I think FEs are actually better than average, at least once you've gotten them running for a thousand or two miles. If you look at the FEs from the 60s, those things ran forever with a lot of them getting little to no maintenance. They're a good, strong design and, once you get them past the "break-in" period, they'll last forever. But you do want somebody building them that has built a couple of them before.

A lot of the old school guys have the advantage of living in a time when knowing how to maintain and keep our cars in perfect running order was the norm.To this day still enjoy lifting the hood for some TLC,figuring out where a leak is, then how to stop it,doing a tuneup,generally looking the car over,grease jobs,all the things required to satisfy the perfectionism gremlin.Still crawl under car to wipe down undercarraige.As I have always said it is me that needs to be pleased and TLCing these toys truly pleases me.It does not matter who's name is on the fender badges or what powers them down the road they all get the same treatment.