Case is together!
 

Well it took almost 10 hours to complete with 3-5 people at any given point. (Including an hour for lunch and probably 90 minutes for philisophical questions and debates) but my case is together!

I especially wanted to thank Souk and Ray911s (and their wives/significant others) for staying for almost 9 HOURS to assist, and lend encouragement.

Thanks to Keith0. for helping install the crank too!

I'm happy with how it turned out! Souk took a ton of pictures untill his battery ran out. We'll post them later.

A few "fun moments".

1) We almost forgot the cam chains!
2) I overtoruqed the perimeter bolts by 7 lbs, oops.. But went back one-by-one and un-retorqued them properly.
3) We didn't open beer untill everything was triple checked.

THere were a few more amusing moments, but I'm way to braindead after 9 hours in the garage to share them all now...

THanks again guys, where else would on-line BBS, car guys, recent aquantences put 9 hours in to someone elses motor "just because." THANKS! :)

The Loctite 574 usually cures in about 45 minutes - hope you guys didn't take 9 hours to bolt the case once you put the halves together!

:)

-Wayne

Wayne,

I'm not THAT slow...

We had the initial 50% torque completed in about 20 minutes and the final torque completed in 30 minutes. I'm pretty confident that it sealed well. We got a good consistent ooze-out from tightening the bolts around all the seams with no gaps...

Crank assembly
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr12a.jpg

That's 10+ hours of cleaning that case. You COULD eat off it.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr13a.jpg

Factory approved engine case sling.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr19a.jpg

A very expensive Christmas tree
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr20a.jpg

Flywheel seal
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr22a.jpg

The crank is IN! (and those nifty rod holders too.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr26a.jpg

Factory cam chain device...
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr29a.jpg

Yours truly. Mr. Goodcheer! Notice the red Duct-tape "flags" where I wanted to make sure we didn't forget to torque something...
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr30a.jpg

We did it...
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr31a.jpg

It's Guiness time!
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads/lr32a.jpg

What kinda flywheel you got there HotRod? :D

Maybe you don't need to worry about that flywheel seal either.

Looking at your picture, it looks to be at full depth?

Hey kevin...

It's a modified stock flywheel actually... Just lightened "a bit" :)

The seal was at full depth in the picture, but it pushed out a bit when we were sealing the case... :(

Good job cleaning the case!

-Wayne

Thanks Wayne. You were obviously very adamant about his in your book, so I cleaned it to the "white glove" point. Last thing I wanted was some stray material burning up a bearing or blocking a squirter.

I also used your rubber hose trick to help blow out the piston squirters, worked like a charm.