revisiting this thread bump it back to the top
wet cold weather pushed me from the wife and kids in the house
out to the garage himm what to do
I know
this will keep my buisy for awhile
time to tear into the rebuilder block to see what I am going to get myself into now
as ususal it is no easy solution
I got this block from the same guy that I got the ghia from he told me it was a great rebuilder
what a joke
1972 AK type block 1600 CC duel port I figured good starting point
got all the cylinder tins and misc stuff pulled from the main meat
got the cylinder heads off not to bad no major problems so far
look to be pretty good shape so far so good
after pulling the jugs the tell tale signs started to apear
brazilian pistons means there has been someone else in here recently
#3 piston was way sloppy with about 1/4" slop UMM thats not god right
curiosity killed the cat so I dug into the case head first
for those that havent seen in here its not suposed to look like this LOL
but heer it is anyway
notice sludge on the bottom as well as lots of the light rust starting to form this ones been sitting awhile
once I got the rods off I begain to see the real damage
the # 1 and 3 were toast
mains dident look to bad but eye ball cant tell time for the mikes
I used mikes for the initial exams then went back with the calipers for the picks the standard was 2.162
mine were 2.135
that tells me my crank has been under sized at leat twice the norm is to undercut it by .010" for clean up this one is scrap at 2.115" on the #3 bearing
nominal ID of a decent rod
now Im ready for clean up and start checking case IDs
and decide what size to go from heer
im started on my class project how bout yall
David you wana chime in and let us know what we should be looking for inside the case bearing areas
once I get it cleand up I will post more picks
hope you guys like the picks and had as mutch fun as I did but less grease
(pu you smell like greasy car parts)
this is all new to me as well
blackthree4me