bottom end together! (again)
 

the first try didn't work out so well. after buttoning up the bottom end I discovered I had my fancy-shmancy torque wrench on NM instead of ft'lbs :( . no biggy, just re-torque the rod bolts through the cylinger holes. oops, rods bolts in backwards :rolleyes: . so take it apart to start over. after separating the case halves we saw that there was a huge thickness of locktite 574 on the main bearing webs. ( maybe a mm in spots :eek: ) guess we took too long getting the thru bolts torqued. anyway, obviously fortuitous that we tore it down, a spun bearing would not be cool.

attempt two much better. more organized. used 574 only on the webs, 1104 on the perimeter, and hylomar on the nose bearing and rear main seal.

a couple of observations. 1104 is very nice to work with. a little hylomar on the bottom of the oil pump seals makes sure they stay put. I had to grind the rod bolt seat on the rod caps a bit to fit the ARP bolts. the ears on the bolt head were preventing the bolt from seating in the cap. putting the nut-end seals on the thru bolts later, much faster this way to get torqued up.

now it looks as though my case is bleeding to death.

note: HYLOMAR ROCKS!

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Nice work. I can't wait to see it all come together.