Huck's daily - 2005 Z71 crewcab

[Drauka99]

you're going to mess around and have a great running engine when you're done.

 

[TotalyHucked]

Don't give me too much credit, I still have plenty of time to screw something up lol

 

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Piddled some more after work today. Started with re-cleaning and re-oiling the cylinders

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Then started fitting rings. Thankfully, all these Hastings “Drop-In” rings are pretty darn close to being “Drop-In”. I think I might have to file a couple just a smidge

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Then a helluva storm started (60mph gusts, a crazy lightning storm, small hail) so I stayed longer than planned. Made some thread chasers out of old head bolts and cleaned out all the head bolt holes

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Assembled one ring just to see how it would all go. No issues, everything went together smoothly.

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So tomorrow I’ll turn the block over, wash and blow out the head bolt holes real good, wash and re-oil the block one more time, drop the crank in for the final time and throw the pistons in (without rings) to check rod bearing clearance. If that checks out, I’ll assemble all the pistons/rings and install the rods/pistons for the final time.

 

[TotalyHucked]

So yesterday I did what I planned, cleaned everything again and dropped the crank in. Torqued it, set the thrust, finished the torque sequence. Spun like butter.

So today I got up to the shop, re-cleaned everything and started checking rod bearing clearance. All 8 checked out perfectly in spec at .002” so it was time to assemble the rings and throw everything in for good

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And done! All 8 in!

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Then hung it back on the hoist to do the rear main and barbell

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I only got stabbed 3 times. The old one’s o-ring was definitely flat

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I sure hope I got it lined up properly. I do not wanna have to do this again anytime soon. I carefully coaxed the rear main plate over the crank flange and slowly sucked it all the way down with 4 of the bolts.

Then backed the bolts back out a tad and rotated the crank to let it find a natural center. Checked where it mated to the oil pan rails with a straight edge and had to make a small adjustment and then tightened it down. We’ll see

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Then re-cleaned, re-slick’d the camshaft and slid it in the block. Threw on the cam gear and timing chain, torqued the cam gear bolts down with a bit of blue locktite. Then put the oil pump on and torqued those bolts. Then oiled the timing chain and pump down real heavy.

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So now we have an assembled short block!

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Called it quits there cuz I had a dinner date with the GF and some friends, celebrated with some beer

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