Evening,
I thought today was going to be all house keeping and prep work but after lunch I got a call from the machine shop telling me the flywheel was surfaced and balanced - Yippee!
Found a couple of interesting things today that I'll mention in the picture captions....
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| The house keeping portions, cleaning out the threads on the block |
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| How does this happen, notice the three marks? The chain must have been really loose to cause this. |
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| The oil feed line is installed and the ends for the cams now in place. I have had a lot of troubles with leakage from these so I took extra precautions with these. The cam cap on the intake side was sealed towards the back/outside with just a tiny bit of RTV and the oil feed line copper squish washers were coated with 'Copper Coat' a spray on sealant then torqued down to 20 N/M. |
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| The surfaced flywheel, not only is it surfaced but it is also balanced with the pressure plate. |
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| Getting the engine off the stand so that I can install the flywheel |
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| Down! |
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| After removing the engine mounting fixture the flywheel is installed, in the center you can see the pilot bearing that the input shaft for the transmission rides. I was really sweating how I was going to get the old one out when I noticed it was LOOSE! I pulled it out with my finger and carefully drove the new one in place. |
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| Since I got such rave reviews for posting pages from my note book, here's another ;-) |
A good day and tomorrow I may get the transmission back on the engine, I hope! Then I might have the engine back in the car by next week-we'll see....
Thanks for looking,
Cheers,
Lynn
7 hrs
Everything is coming along nicely I see. I well remember when I bolted my flywheel into place and 67 ft/lbs on the bolts is the magic number. Except I don't remember replacing the pilot bearing. Hmm.
ReplyDeleteThere's not enough grimy fingerprints on the notebook page. Plus your writing is much easier to read than mine. Hmm?
Let's see. I glued the LH side drip rail chrome onto Ruby. Waiting for it to dry and then will move to the RH side tomorrow. I'm nothing if not slow and semi-meticulous. (Is semi-meticulous even an acceptable word? Probably not.)
Thank you Drew! I've replaced the pilot bearing on the ones I've done but this is first time it was loose! It must have been spinning in the crank? I'll bet you replaced yours too, but if it's not making any noise don't worry about it.
ReplyDeleteI kept a rag under my hand this time ;-), Can't imaging my handwriting is better than yours, remember what I did for a living?
It may not be a word but I know what you mean and your wrong! No 'Semi' in your work!
Cheers,
Lynn