Reply With Quotebig motor for a kayak! looks great so far..cleanliness is next to Godliness in this kind of work!
Ya, thats my buddys.. told him when this boats done i'm going to tow him behind it :2purples:
That tennis racket back there is his too... i swear
Shaun,
What is your opinion of the measuring tools you bought from Summit?
As long as you don't mind, I would sure like to see these guys comments on the board - I've got a lot to learn.
I'm thinking of putting my engine back together myself. I've always had it done by the guy that does the machining, since I didn't have the tools and it was only a couple hundred bucks for him to assemble the short block. Maybe it's time for me to buy the tools and give it a try.
Brian
Honestly i cant say, from what i've learned by browsing there site is that many of the products they stamp there name on looks to be the product of another. For example if you search for dial bore you'll see the first 2 products look exactly the same just one says it's a summit brand and other other says tavia. I am happy with the micrometer set i bought which is also summit brand (not that i have much experience with other brands) but the dial bore gauge I'm not too sure about. I basically got different measurements using plastigauge than i did with the gauge so I'm not sure what to believe. Maybe i can take the gauge to a machine shop and have them test it against one of there's... Or maybe Fiat will be nice enough to let me ship it to him to compare against his expensive guage
I was thinking today as i was buying more tools to do my rail kit mock up that the money I've been spending in tools i could have probably just used to pay a shop to do the labor... but then again I'm making a investment and i want to build other engines, besides wheres the fun and pride in that
big motor for a kayak! looks great so far..cleanliness is next to Godliness in this kind of work!
Ya, thats my buddys.. told him when this boats done i'm going to tow him behind it :2purples:
That tennis racket back there is his too... i swear
Hey Shaun
Are those my seats up in the rafters?
http://home.earthlink.net/~jrvalenti...hwind_dash.jpg
Well the saga finally continues... I've been busy these last few months with work and personal drama... I'm finally continuing where i left off. I wiped out the bores with laquar thiner and paper towels and used the total seal stuff. That stuff is trippy, reminds me of graphite. Installed the rings on the pistons, slid them in using my POS ring compressor and torqued them to 50lbs per ARP using there lub. Cam is lubed up and installed and tomorrow i plan to degree the cam... we'll see how well that goes...
Installing rings on pistons...
http://reitanfamily.com/gallery/d/20843-1/DSCF6195.JPG
1-3-5-7 Installed... The green tint is that totalseal stuff.
http://reitanfamily.com/gallery/d/20855-1/DSCF6252.JPG
Rollmaster timing set installed...
http://reitanfamily.com/gallery/d/20876-1/DSCF6259.JPG
I just about f'd things up from the start, i torqued the first 3 pistons using 50 newton meters!!! My torque wrench has both newton meters and foot pounds... Lucky i realized this and corrected it. My solution was to put some tape over the newton meters readout so that i wouldnt mess up again. Some of you other guys out there may want to do this if you have a wrench that shows both! Simple mistake that probably wouldnt have caused failure i'm sure... 50 newton meters is only like ~30 foot lbs.
Looking good Shaun!..
Shaun,
Good job. Like said before it is great to see a young guy taking initiative & building his own deal.
Keep us updated.
Shaun, looks like it is going together well. Keep taking your time and make sure you don't overlook anything and it will be everything you could ask for. Also let us know how the total seal stuff works for you. I have never used it as I have me own method for assembly, but would love to hear how quickly the rings break in with that stuff.
Paul
Sorry, don't know what happend but it did a double post.
Got a bit more time to work on the motor today. First i installed the windage tray which was a mistake, oil pump needs to go on first
Windage tray and oil pump installed..
http://reitanfamily.com/gallery/d/20909-1/DSCF6273.JPG
Not sure about this one.. i bought arp oil pump shaft (think it was arp, might be melling, would have to dig through my wrappers) it has a steel sleeve but the sleeve doesnt clip onto the oil pump shaft. the sleeve is part of the shaft so it doesnt allow the shaft to fall throguh the block because it's big but as you can see in the pic, when the block is unside down it drops down a bit. I know when the dist is in it wont matter really but i just wanted to get input on this..
http://reitanfamily.com/gallery/d/20912-1/DSCF6274.JPG
ARP Studs installed, cometic gasket installed.
http://reitanfamily.com/gallery/d/20927-1/DSCF6279.JPG
Head installed..
http://reitanfamily.com/gallery/d/20936-1/DSCF6282.JPG
Tomorrow i plan to degree the cam, i know i said that earlier but i forgot i needed at least one head on to use the piston stop on #1
oh ya, if you look at the cometic gasket picture... on the bottom the 3 holes for water... one of the holes in the gasket doesnt quiet line up... it's like half covered... is this normal?
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