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upside down on a stand..About the ned of the thread someone mentioned cleaning the surfaces real good and squeazing some rtv in it w/o taking it apart.
What think ye?
Or, will it hurt to take the one cap of f, seal it, and put it back on?
I love TRS of course..but for serious 2.3 stuff..especially HP stuff..the other site has a depth of input...Yeah, looks like something I need to read over and check...thanks John!
I'm not a member there either, my e-mail account isn't fancy enuf I guess. I had gather all the parts to build a Turbo'd motor so I had spent quite a bit of time there..and of course the solid info on engine building by the many "experienced" senior hands there are obvious. When you think about the various possible places for leaks on this engine certainly that one on the rear main cap if missed could be such a discouragement to a "new engine" project, I felt to give a heads up.....I would hate to see anyone have to pull the motor again to fix such a small easily solved problem, when at this stage...I spent some time there yesterday. It does me little good since I'm not turbo'd.
Didn't join. I like the folks here.
BTW- I DID take the cap off and seal it and re-torque it. You are right about it needing RTV (black). With the cap on, you can't see the little channel that runs front to back. If I had a decent camera, I would have taken a picture of it.
Good call- thank you.
When fitting a crank, I always plastigage so I will know exactly what the the fitment is but I know that common practice is to "mic" and fit bearings..I do have to confess,I didn't plasti-gauge the bearings.
If my friend says I need to, I will. I trust the machine shop.
Plasti-gauging is the one thing the book says to do and I didn't.
What do you think?
I have a collection of early 12pt head bolts which can be re-used. I like the idea of re-using good head-bolts that can be torqued to specific specs. If your used bolts show obvious signs of stretching or unusual thread wear..maybe set them aside. On an N/A head install with properly tapped clean threads, I believe head bolts could be re-used quite a few times actually. Of course you want to tap your thread holes in the block..and torque carefully consistantly etc. (Original 12pt headed bolts ONLY)The block was align bored. The crank polished. They did mention mic 'n it. They supplied all the internals. I think I'm ok.
Another thing I think about is torquing and undoing and retorquing the bolts .
I'm trying to use the bolts I have but I've read I should buy new head bolts.
What do you think ?