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Originally Posted by jpnovak
Now, get that thing clean and on the stand so we can start putting the bottom end together.
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Right away, sir!
The case is finally getting clean. Progress was very slow with brake and carb cleaner, so I tried AlumaKleen which really sped up the process by unlocking a lot of the stubborn gunk. The inside of the case was pretty good, but some of the flanges had sealer residue that was stubborn, along with the usual grease/dirt staining on the outside. My goal isn't a gleaming polished concours-ready case, but I do want it to look like I made some effort. One more going-over and I think I can declare victory. Meanwhile, I have started preparing for the bottom end build.
I unpacked the crank today, and was pretty stoked to see that Ollie's did a great job of making it look not like it did when I sent it off. If you saw the pics earlier in this thread, it had some nasty scars on the webs, but otherwise looked sound. I was happy to see it shiny and looking like a worthy centerpiece to my motor.
I had it magna-fluxed, balanced, and cross-drilled. This pic shows the groove in the middle main journal to pick up oiling through the bearing and case (a larger hole is drilled through the case web to the oil galley at that spot).
Here I've got the crank bolted to a junk flywheel clamped in my bench vise. Should be pretty easy to assemble everything this way.
Time for me to do some reading and prep for assembling the rods...