Ok back at it.
Last week was a bit of a write off. Too hot and we had a tenant to extract who was dug in like an Alabama tick.
Over with now. Not sure if I ever want to deal with a renter again. On the one hand long term is easy, on the other, you get dragged into their bull****, and we are sooooooo done with other people's bull****.
We have a fence, a gate and a moat. Take the hint humans.
Anyways. Back to cruiserland.
I don't understand this things purpose. Stiffening plate. Stiffening what? The giant lump of cast iron block?
If it's for oil circulation, fine, but why call it a stiffening plate? Dunno.
Made a quick and dirty puller to get the pulley off, glad I didn't attempt this in the truck. It fought every mm of the way.
Got the timing cover off. Still debating whether to pull the cam. Sounds like it needs to be pressed out, and it seems to me that makes for a good opportunity to **** up the bearings.
I'll do some more reading on it tonight. Could be I have that wrong.
Fsm is on the work computer too
My feeling with this engine is that the low KMs are accurate, but the reason they're low is because it sat for 6 or 7 years.
When I bought the truck some of the pictures were 7 years old, so I have my suspicions.
This I didn't notice when I had the pan off 5 or 6 years ago. I didn't rotate the crank at the time because I was just replacing a rusty pan.
Suspect that's condensation from the years of sitting.
My guess anyways. Don't see staining anywhere else.
Main bearings I've looked at seem ok tho. Have to wait for the new ones to show up.
Also not sure if the thrust bearings are replaceable without pulling the crank out. Top half might be trapped. More reading required.
Got new ones coming in case mine were pooched, but I suspect they're fine with the low kms. Gave it the prybar wiggle the fsm describes and got the metric equivalent of ****all.
I'll measure more accurately later
