Thread: hello fellow grease monkeys!

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Welcome to the forum. Someone else may know of some videos, I'm sure they probably exist, but I just wanted to pass along a couple of tips:

1) You say you already tore the engine down. I hope you made detailed drawings and/or pictures of how stuff came off, because you won't remember how it all went back together if you didn't. (Don't ask me how I know )

2) Put every part you take off in something like zip lock bags with permanent marker writing on it as to contents. ie, "right side head bolts" Keep all the parts separated this way .

3) While the engine is at the machine shop you can be cleaning up bolts, brackets, etc that you are going to reuse. A wire wheel is a great tool to clean up bolts, and other stuff, and it will leave the threads clean for accurate retorquing. When these parts are all nice and clean, rebag them in clean, relabled baggies.

4) When reassembling the engine the work area must be kept extremely clean and free of dust and dirt. The slightest little spec of dirt can cause you problems if it lodges in a bearing or elsewhere.

5) Buy a decent torgue wrench and not only are you torguing things to spec, but you will be doing it incrementally. ie: if the final head torque is 80 lbs as an example, go around in sequence the first time to maybe 20 lbs, then rerun the sequence at 40, etc. You get a more even torquing this way. You usually break it up in thirds ( 20, then 40, then 60 as an example)

Have fun.


Don

Oh, and oil the h*** out of everything when you reassemble it, and prelube it with a preluber on your electric drill before you crank it the first time to preoil all the internals.