Builds An Accidental Frame Off.................. (2 Viewers)

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Believe me, I have plenty to keep busy with! Between 2 daughters 10, and 8, work, 3 other vehicles and my camper I have to get wrench time in whenever I can! And Saturdays are college football days!

 

[Solace in Solitude]

Been there... Done that... Busy times!! But, they don't last nearly long enough... Enjoy!!

 

[JohnnyC]

New England is nice... Just not in winter ... Way too much salt

Wife and I just deposited on a seasonal site in wells Maine ... She's going to make me broke


I have the skyjackers ... They flex really well compared to most

My flex so much I needed to use extended shackles because they would bottom out do you have any grove marks on your rear shackle hangers?

Daughter at grafton state park... An hour after this picture she accidently stepped on my Oem fst canvas door and cracked my original plastic 1/4 window


Your builds coming along nicely

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

JohnnyC, no grooves on the hangers but the pins and the holes in the shackles both have a lot of wear, enough that I will replace the pins, no question.

Maine was definitely nice, but I feel more at ease in Montana!

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

I snapped this one last year along the Madison River.


Going trout hunting this morning for a few hours!

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Well after a mistake installing the pistons, I have finally gotten everything straightened out. Pistons are back in the block, notch to the front, oil hole on the rod facing the camshaft. I was starting to drop the head back on and took a look into the intake and exhaust ports....the intake valves have a ton of gunk on them. Time to take a break to rent a vavle spring compressor to get them out and clean them. Oil pan and engine mounts are painted, waited on them to dry.

Also waiting out the torrential rain that is been hitting the area...........

The UPS guy dropped in also....

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Pics. Also taillights and engine mounts from Beno!

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

I have slacked off on posting any kind of update to my thread, the pace has slowed a little with work and family. As it sits now the engine is in the frame, just got the flywheel turned, new clutch and pressure plate are sitting in the garage. I have the manifolds sitting under the rig waiting their turn to bolt on as well, had a vasectomy on Monday so I am taking it easy this week! Lots of painting going on, trying to pay attention to details here. I bolted the radiator in the frame last week and connected all of the radiator hoses, I had to go to NAPA and sort through the radiator hoses to find one to hack up for the installation of a Gano filter. $32 later and two cuts we are set! Replaced all the seals in the t-case, input and output, both axle pinon seals......probably a few others I am missing as well. The engine is closed up, head torqued, valve cover on for a while, once I finish the manifolds I can move along and get the clutch components and the tranny/transfercase back in.


More to follow..............

Thank a vet today, and call your buddies, it could mean a lot more than you think!

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Of course there was a little fly fishing going on.

 

[47coeman]

Of course there was a little fly fishing going on.

Now you are talking, fly fishing good for the soul.

 

[Chungas Revenge]

fly fishing good for the soul.

X2^

 

[Chungas Revenge]

Were you over in my neck of the woods?

 

[47coeman]

No, but wish I was getting my line wet...

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Close, I was out in Garrett county again fishing on the Savage and some brookie streams that we won't name!

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

So back when this first started I was having a huge problem with blowby in my engine. I was pushing oil, carbon, and who knows what else up through the air cleaner, down to the carb, and back into the intake. Coating everything with a nasty layer of oil. Once I decided to get busy on fixing this it lead to a complete teardown, I had already had the head off earlier in the year to no avail. This time I was going all the way in, once got everything disassembled I found all 6 pistons had broken ring lands, skirts were broken on all of them. Trash. Rings were broken, so I found my source of the blowby. I believe the root cause of this all came from overheating the engine a few years ago, time to solve some problems.

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Once I had the engine cleaned up I broke out a Fowler bore gauge to mic the cylinders, to my surprise they all mic'ed out perfectly, all the numbers were within standard specs. I took measurements 4 different directions in 4 different depths in each cylinder. It appeared that the pistons were no match for the old school 2F block. I could actually make out some of the cross hatching from the last time I rebuilt it.

Then came the camshaft. It was jacked up. Multiple lobes were worn, no wonder I was having a hell of a time trying to adjust the valves in the spring.
I sent the cam out to Delta Camshaft in Tacoma to have it reground, a KC grind if I remember correctly.

The crankshaft went to my local guys to polish and to do their magic, overall it was ok!

I honed the cylinders with a bore brush that worked wonders! It broke the glaze off and cleanded the cylinders up nice, then I spent a couple days washing, wiping, and repeating again until the block was just about spotless. In the meantime I had ordered new guts from Beno, pistons, rings, bearings, hoses, and a radiator!


More to follow

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

Delta cam rocks, ever since I did a 472 Cadillac motor in a jet boat (decades ago) - they've been my go-to people.

 

[Chungas Revenge]

the pistons were no match

Did you use OE pistons last go-round?

 

[Chungas Revenge]

brookie streams that we won't name!

If you send me an 8 digit grid I promise not to "Name the stream(s)"...

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Did you use OE pistons last go-round?

Negative. Sealed power if I remember correctly. I had issues from the git go with them, sent the first 6 back.