========================================================== Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Get the latest weather, sports, and lifestyle news you can't afford to miss, all at a price you can afford to pay! Click now! caaa9eYb7yoMza/TopOffers ========================================================== When you hold a factory main bolt up to one of the studs, is there any difference? Longer shank on the stud than the bolt? Different thread pitch? Anything? Dave Casey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Grow" <sixtyfourmopar@xxxxxxxxx> To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:19 AM Subject: Re: 318 Poly windage tray install problem > ========================================================== > Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Get the latest weather, > sports, and lifestyle news you can't afford to miss, all > at a price you can afford to pay! Click now! > caaa9eYbUYx2xa/TopOffers > ========================================================== > We did each of those. Actually we had the mains torqued down to the factory setting of 85 foot-lbs, using the stock bolts. We tried different combinations of each - and had the same problem each time...final answer we came up with was that they just don't fit right. > > Thanks much, > Andy > > Dave Casey <dcasey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Try chasing the threads with a tap (there might be crap preventing the stud > from going all the way in. Turn the block right side up when you do this to > keep things clean (anything you clean out will fall down and out of the > engine). > You could also check the depth of the hole to see if its physically possible > for that stud to screw all the way in. > If it passes those tests, try it with the cap removed to rule out some kind > of misalignment/binding. You have the arrows on the mains pointing toward > the front of the engine, yes? > > Dave Casey > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! > -- > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ---- > Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! > > '62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: > http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html. > > ---- Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. I.e., send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks! '62 to '65 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines: http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html. b7yoMz.