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Marlins Web Site
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Date: 9-22-2022
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Number of Hours: 7.00
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Manual Reference: OP-40
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Brief Description: Install Baffling (cont.)
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It’s not an easy task to get the baffle pieces mounted once they are riveted together. I ended up scratching my Stuart Systems Epoxy Paint and decided to repaint them with Dupli-Color Engine Enamel Paint from the local Car Quest store. Good news and bad news…I found a color of enamel primer and paint I liked call “New Ford Grey” and the primer went on very nicely…bad news is “Even though I shook the actual epoxy paint can for 8 minutes instead of the recommended 2 minutes, the paint came out in a foamy blob the consistency of whipped cream! I had to wait 24 hours for it to dry so I could sand it all off to reapply. The next day I shook the can for 12 minutes, sprayed into a garbage can and it sprayed good. About three seconds into repainting the #4-cylinder baffle, the paint comes out about the consistency of thick cream. Not a happy camper, I went down and bought some new paint. 24 hours later, resprayed, and guess what…grey whipped cream, again! Maybe I should have bought “New Chevy Red”! Anyway, I finally figured out if you spray about half the can it comes out like it’s supposed to…GRRR. (Actually, I said much worse things than that.) To top things off, I cut the holes for the spark plug wires, and installed the “very hard to get to” screw, nut, and spacer” into a the bottom of the engine block…what should have taken 20 minutes extended into 3 hours.
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Cutting the baffles by hand
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How much you had to whittle
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Mounting bolt below engine mount bolt
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