Weekends rebuild progress

[jhelgesen]

Lots of progress this weekend. Got the short block completed, went together pretty easy. Have to see what I can do this week.

[Wayne 962]

Looks nice...

-Wayne

[jhelgesen]

My only concern over the weekend was when I put the head studs in. Some of them I just needed to use my fingers to twist the studs in most of the way, just needing a wrench for the last few turns. The loctite 271 has them in place solid now. Guess I expected a little more resistance.

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

We chased the threads before inserting the studs. All studs went in easily by hand and the loctite is still doing it's job.

[jgparker]

Is it acceptable to chase case savers? My last set of case savers were so tight, I could not get the studs to 135mm. After chasing them, I was concerned that they were not tight enough to stay-put. I was using my Snap-on collet-style stud installer, so the tool what not the problem.

[Doug Zielke]

John,
I chased the stud holes with a tap before I installed the new studs. There was quite a bit of old Loctite in the holes, which the tap easily removed. The new studs threaded in with fingertips. After the break-in period was up, I checked the stud torques.....all of them were right on spec.

[ValveFloat]

Cool, that's where I'm at on my 2.0L rebuild.
Of course I've been at this stage for a good three weeks now...
I'm taking my time

[dduclaux]

are those Dilivar head studs in that picture?

[jhelgesen]

Nope, they are steel, magnet sticks to them. Epoxy coated steel.