Hi Everyone,
I have been sooooo busy trying to get the Northwest 2nd Annual FE BBQ ready and trying to get this "PIG" done and on the road!!!
Grab your favorite Beer and a Bag of chips and enjoy! Hell this is better then any Super Bowl if you ask me LOL! I don't know about the rest of you but I'm a true gear head LOL.
Here we go!
We are installing the mains in the block and getting ready to lay the crank in.
As you can see, we did line-up the oil holes with the main bearings. You dont need to do this but we thought that we should! The choice is yours LOL.
We laid the crank in the bed and checking to see how it fits.
And yes we did put it in dry LOL.
We torqued the mains down to 105 FT Pounds with some plastic gauge. If you kept up with the past post I showed how we came up with the clearance before. We should have .003 clearance. If you don't have the tools to check then this is a OK way of doing it. Not the best but it will help in a pinch.
As you can see we have .003 clearance like we wanted!
Here you can see where the plastic gage hit on the main bearing on the cap. Look at the oil hole.
After we did some checks on the crank, we took it back a part to wash out the cylinders. We have a pan with some nice worm water and Liquid Spic-an-Span. Yes you heard me right LOL. I shouldn't show you guys all the tricks but what the hell LOL.
Next we take a lint free towel to wipe out the hole.
I know that your thinking that this block has been washed how many times? It should be clean right? Well you better think again on that! This is what is left in the cylinders before assembly. Its a "REAL" good idea to make sure that they are clean. Like I always say "A clean engine is a very happy engine" LOL
I hope that you got a kick out of this and maybe got a little knowledge out of it. I have a ton more post for ya! Next I will show how to install the crank and check to see how our deck height turned out. Then we will install the cam and show how to degree it in. Then I will show how to use Devcon to float the floor of the block. After that then we are to the point of File fit the rings and install the pistons in the hole. Stay tuned for some more of "The Poor Mans 427"!
If you have any Q's, "PLEASE" call me Home 541-882-5177 or cell 541-331-1484. Thanks for your time.
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