Some douche bag pulled up beside me and yelled at me. “Get a tailgate on that piece of s***” yelling from an 05 Chevy 4x4 pickup. So I decided to make a tailgate with scraps form my yard. Bed angle iron and filling cabinet metal. Not exactly perfect but will do.
I didn't check with plastiguages as I didn't even torque the crank down.
I did use oil, not assembly lube.
To my best of knowledge, the bearings seated properly.
So I rolled in new standard 3B bottom end bearings from under my truck and when I hand tightened the bolts on the bearing caps. The crank wouldn’t turn even with a 3 foot socket wrench.
Any wizards out there?
So I went by this job wrong. I seen a video that made it easy to roll your BEB’s in from under your truck. It wasn’t too hard but I should have just plastigauged the first bearing but I replaced them all just to realize the bearings were too tight. Stock standard bearings. So a bit of an anomaly...