fella had engine trouble (overheating) with a 66 mustang, and we couldn't fix that with changing gaskets.
he had his heads checked, radiator flushed and we bolted them on.
hoses were pressurizing, something was wrong. Took the whole lot apart, engine out of car and it seems his block is cracked in the sleeves

since we assumed in my engine the heads were gone we changed the block. he took my block with his heads. my block even is a 66.
a buddy of mine did most of the work and I was there on Saturday to help. had to iron out a few issues, but now it's running not loosing any water or oil. no overheating. he's good to go :-)

 

Thats good. I'm glad to hear another pony is still on the road.

 

you should see the smile on the fellas face. he's driving it the first time in 3 years. we only knew about him because he didn't know what to do it anymore (no help/money), so he wanted to sell. we had a look at the car and figured we could maybe fix it for him

 

You guys are great!

 

awesome! thats nice of you all to help him instead of letting him sell the car. They are pretty rare in Ireland I'm sure, so it'd be hard for him to ever replace that I would imagine.

 

it's not really the edge of the world where you'd find a ford small block at the scrapper alright. so we all try help out each other. what comes around goes around. i had about 10 people looking for blocks/heads etc when I fried my old engines as well. so i'm glad o help

 

I bet he was thrilled. I know I would have been.

 

Bet he felt like he won the lottery. Tried to sell the car and ended up getting an engine and got it running...

You my friend, have some good karma coming to you!