Well, today after I got the bumper on my Dad's car I was all wound up & ready to go so I worked some on the Pinto. I was trying to decide whether or not to paint the engine compartment for Carlisle, so I started to paint it gloss black. It's not going to be a perfect job, as it's mainly to make the engine compartment a uniform color, as well as hide some of the rust. It's looking good so far. I got one coat on the passenger side, and ran out of gloss black, so I've got to get more. It's going well so far, and I figured while I had the battery out of the way I might as well do it.
As for the engine, I found another problem that was missed when I replaced the camshaft & rockers. I got the lifters from the Ranger I got the roller rockers out of and installed them, and shortly after I started to hear the noise. Turns out, alside from having worn rod & main bearings and a bad oil pump I also had ONE lifter that I could compress. I am thinking it was making some of the noise I was hearing, as well as the bad bearings at the bottom of the engine. I'm ok with that since I kept a set of lifters I previously bought with the cam. The cam & lifters came out of a 92 Ranger, but I had to get different Rockers for it.
Anyways, I'm going to clean up the lifters from the 92 Ranger and install them since there was one bad one from the 84 Ranger.