Not enough days to Barnyard Cruiser but still working on it

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Stan Howe Helena, Montana USA on Monday, June 06, 2011 - 01:18 am:

Spent part of the day putting the cam and lifters in the block, got the valves all done yesterday. Spent a couple hours this afternoon grinding on the rods to get them all the same weight.




Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Allan Bennett on Monday, June 06, 2011 - 02:07 am:

Stan,

Do you weigh your rods before re-metalling them? The guy who does mine has me get a set close to matching weights before he starts. It sure helps when trying to match them up later.

Allan from down under


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Stan Howe Helena, Montana USA on Monday, June 06, 2011 - 10:13 am:

I didn't pour these rods. They are reworked from some I had that were repoured by somebody but not me. They came out of my parts stash, I have no idea where I got them. I do know that two of them were stamped Federal Mogul and one was stamped Clevite so they were professionally done. The other one looked like the Clevite one but wasn't stamped. I sold all my K R Wilson stuff last year because I wasn't using it, I just kept the boring bar, false cam and a standard and .020 under reamer. I don't have a block pouring jig. I could have built one in the time I spent fooling around with this block that had "good" babbitt in it. Same with the rods. I have a Hempy Cooper jig for caps and rods but thought it would be quicker to just use these. I pulled a couple shims from the main caps, replaced a center main cap with one I had and ran the reamer through it to clean up the bore. Then I Timesavered the bearings and bolted it down tight. It will be OK but for all the time I spend fooling with it I could have poured the block and had new babbitt. Next time I'll do that. I can't tell how many times I have fooled away time trying to use old babbitt when it only takes a couple hours to pour new and bore it.

The bore on these rods is from my K R Wilson reamer. The crank is very close to standard, 1.246-1.247 so I just pulled a shim out of the rods, chucked the reamer in the lathe and ran the rods across it to make sure the bore was right. They fit the crank nice. I would have just found a heavier rod for the light one if I had realized how much I would have to take off the others to make the weights match.

As it always happens, after I did all this work to make the weights match, I found another NOS Clevite rod last night while looking for some wrist pin bolts. It is as heavy as the others were before I started grinding on them. But now I'd have to grind it down and fit it to the crank so I'll stick with what is done.

It only took me about 20 minutes or half hour on each rod. They heavy ones were about a quarter, two dimes and a penny heavy when I started.

That scale, by the way, was a gift from Lewis Rector about 20 years ago. It is oil dampened and is the handiest thing to have for doing this kind of stuff.

Also, notice where the oil hole is in the rods. That was another Lewis deal. He didn't believe in dippers. The hole doing through to the rod is 7/64ths and the "reservoir" counterbore is .250 and about .125 deep. He did the rods this way for his race cars for years as well as his driver T's.

I'm putting new old stock .060 Jahns pistons in this with 351 Windsor valves, need to get it together. Got company last night or I'd have had it all "short blocked up" as Lewis would say. Maybe today.

Part of why I'm so slow is that it has been several years since I build up an engine and I'm having to relearn proceedures, find tools I know I have if I could just find them, etc. I could do another one in a couple days. I'll probably blow this one up pretty quick anyway, do another one this fall or winter.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Shelton, Tennessee, USA on Monday, June 06, 2011 - 10:28 am:

Stan,

How much do you charge to come watch?

Steve


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Les Schubert on Monday, June 06, 2011 - 10:28 am:

It's looking god Stan, stay at it please.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By tom strickling on Monday, June 06, 2011 - 10:40 am:

Did you say Stan is nearly a GOD !!!!!!!!!!


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