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Starting over with the photos now but with captions. Some
oil just under the front of the intake manifold. Possibly an
RTV leak. |
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The interior of the motor is squeaky clean. Love the
frequent oil changes. The intake runners all have some oil
stains and I don't know exactly where that's coming from right
now. |
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Intake runners with the oil stains. |
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The other side. |
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Spark plugs look to me like the tune up was very very good. |
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Just another view. |
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Prior to removing the valve train. |
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The valve tips do not show any witness marks. No wear at all? |
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Everything is organized nicely in my valve-train organizer tray. |
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The oil pump drive gear and the cam gear had only slight wear.
(normal). |
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The cam lobes all look normal with slight wear. |
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No oil gunk on the chambers. No signs of oil ring blow by. |
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A view of all the piston tops. This all looks a bit cleaner
than most motors I've seen. |
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The other bank. |
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One rod bearing out of 8 had some dirt stains. This is #1
but the photo does not show it very well. |
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All the rod bearings look quite nice, (except #1) |
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Piston skirt rocking in the bore makes that mark on the cylinder
wall. |
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Photo sort of out of order but here is the bottom end right after
taking off the oil pan. |
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Crank out and main bearing are all like new except the thrust. |
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The thrust bearing has one dirt line from debris. |
The crank is at the
balance shop waiting for balance, (needs heavy metal
probably). The block is going to get a plateau hone to be
ready for the new pistons. |
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Finally the balance is completed. I delayed for quite a
while too due to wedding plans and all that jazz. So here
are the new pistons on the oid Compstar rods. |
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Another view. |
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Sorry there are not more photos...I started the day with no
batteries for the camera...I did not want to delay so I put the
crank in and did the ring gap..then went to the store. |
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Speed Pro Hell-Fire. The top is at .026" and so is the
2nd ring, as per Speed Pro suggestion. The top ring is very
stiff, (hard). The 2nd ring is quite soft. |
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Started out with ACL standard H-series bearings and that gave
.003" rod bearing clearance. Then went to Clevite
H-series standard and have .0025" clearance. The
Clevites are what I used. |
![](hodeturbo013fstn.jpg)
New camera allows me to get macro photos now. The bore
hone. It is a plateau hone. |
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Nice photo of the JE piston in the hole. |
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Not an official deck-height measurment yet but just an eyball.
It is in the hole some .005" |
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All pistons in except #7. |
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All pistons in. |
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Posing. |
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More posing. |
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And more posing. |
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The bottom end. |
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Final torque of rod bolts, (75ft-lb), .018" to .020" rod
side clearance. |
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Nice view of the JE pistons |
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Timing set install, TDC find. |
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Piston is .002" in the hole. |
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Cam is dead nuts on at 112deg intake lobe center. |
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Another view of degree check set up. |
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Old timing cover on and new seals to be installed. |
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New Titan Gerotor oil pump. Stud nut at 65ft-lb with moly. |
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Fitting of windage tray. |
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Rod clearance check. |
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Have to bend the tray for the Stef's pan. |
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Dipstick tube bends a little around the main cap nut. |
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Pan does not fit. |
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Mistake in manufacture. |
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Another pan off the shelf and it does fit. |
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Trial fitting prior to oil pan gasket. Crank clearance
check. |
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Some spots on the oil pan need to be ground for crank clearance. |
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Fit-check looks good. |
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One of the last motors to be assembled in my shop/kitchen.
Will be married soon and my shop will become a home. Engine
building will be outside on the porch or new garage. |
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New ARP 12pt head bolts. Super clean and with ARP thread
sealant. |
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FelPro head gasket on and a good look at the cylinders and
pistons.
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One head on and here is a final look at the pistons.. |
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Another view. |
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Head on and ARP head bolts at 65ft-lb |
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The Jesel shaft rocker stands will be installed over these
.100" shims. |
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Taking a break here. The Jesel shaft stand bolts are being
soaked in cleaning solution so that I can put sealant on the threads
to keep oil from being sucked into the intake runner. |
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Jesel rocker stands are on and the bolts have ARP thread sealant. |
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The intake manifold intake runners were cleaned with brakclean so
that we can see if oil is getting in the intake in the future. |
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The manifold looks to sit pretty well on the gasket. This is
just a mock-up to see if I can spot problems. |
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Another view. |
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This pan is hard to fit. I did quite a lot
"tweaking" for lack of a better word. |
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Here I'm just putting RTV on the gasket/block surface and not on
the pan/gasket surface so that the pan can be removed. |
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More views of the oil pan. |
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Now with 4 quarts of Shell Rotella 30 weight. |
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The Titan gerotor oil pump is spinning nicely with my drill at
2500rpm. 60psig. |
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Intake manifold on and motor wrapped and ready for shipping. |