Toploader wrote:

6sally6 wrote:

Switch to the new(er) mini-type starter and they have the solenoid built in.........eliminating the old cumbersome one screwed-on-the-fender-skirt! They are smaller so more clearance between header and starter. They are stronger...spinning the engine over faster. Lotsa win-winz!
6sal6

Can you post me some links on what ones you think are good? My starter has always been a noisy starter.

If you put the solenoid on the starter, and you fry the solenoid, can you replace just that part, or do you have to replace the entire starter?  Like, in times past you could buy starter bearings, bendix, brushes…. Now you just get a new starter.

Yeah.........I tink the old six mighta-been right on the ragged edge!!!!
You could kinda tell by the look on those fellas faces.
6sal6

Now, if my 250 pulled 3/4 of those numbers and sounded like that, FOR LESS THAN MY 331 COST, I would be interested.  But, I am not afraid mine is going to blow up every time I floor it.  

Wowie so what's the going rate if I was to ship you my engine and have you build it? With the looks of your skills I would most likely a assume out of my price range. Very nice work.

You can get a boroscope accessary for your smart phone.  I have the "Depstech wireless endoscope wf010" for my Android, about $30 on Amazon.  Works well.

MS - looks very good, nice job.

When I bought my 66 back in 1992, the owner stated it was running when parked. It was NOT running, nor would that engine ever run again.
The carbon in the cylinders had fallen down and gotten lodged in the area between the top cylinder ring and the piston/cylinder wall. It was locked up so bad I had to ise a sledge hammer and block of wood to get them to come out of the block.
Yours is obviously not that bad, but has the potential to be, if you keep messing with it.
Pull the engine and disassemble it, using carb cleaner to dissolve what is locked up if needed.
Otherwise, you will just be doing more and more damage as time goes on.
You may get away with just cleaning it up and putting rings and bearings in it. If you get it started as-is, who knows what is in there?
This coming from a guy that ENJOYS building engines. Your fun may not be in the same game, but the advice is still sound.