Case is together!

[cstreit]

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!

[Wayne 962]

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

[cstreit]

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...

[cstreit]

Crank assembly


That's 10+ hours of cleaning that case. You COULD eat off it.


Factory approved engine case sling.


A very expensive Christmas tree


Flywheel seal


The crank is IN! (and those nifty rod holders too.


Factory cam chain device...


Yours truly. Mr. Goodcheer! Notice the red Duct-tape "flags" where I wanted to make sure we didn't forget to torque something...


We did it...


It's Guiness time!

[KTL]

What kinda flywheel you got there HotRod?

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

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

[cstreit]

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...

[Wayne 962]

Good job cleaning the case!

-Wayne

[cstreit]

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.