From: Robert neal zimmerman <northwestweirdo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: 1962to1965mopars@
To: 1962to1965mopars@
Subject: 273 disaster
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 16:56:29 -0800
well its a little off topic, but it is Mopar and the 273 was existent
in 64 and 65 so just pretend its a 64 valiant we are talking about and
not my 67 coronet
It was suppoesed to be a no-brainer replacement of the leaky rear
main seal while i had the motor out for painting my engine
compartment, but it has turned into a total disaster.
I pulled the pan and the rear main cap, and loosened up all the
other main caps a bit, but that upper half of the rear main seal
WOULD NOT come out,
so I had to flip the motor on its top , yaNK THE TIMING CASE COVER,
TIMING CHAIN, BALANCER, ETC.and carfully remove the rod caps and
slowly excruciatingly remove the crank making sure to not scar the
crank with the rod bolts.
I got the crank out, gave all the bearings a good look over ( they
look fine) , but now i dont know if i can actually get the crank
reinstalled and coordinate all the rods in order to not scar the
crank,it was a small miracle i was able to get it out, but i dont
know if it can be done again.
The problem is , that as u turn the crank to get the first rod
journal into place, u have three other rod journals coming down or
going up and the attendant rods bolts sticking up to get in the
way.
I know about putting hose over rod bolts to guard the journals, but
that will not help this case and would in fact make the problem more
difficult.I am wondering if I just shouldnt buy a full gasket set,
yank the heads and do it correctly, by installing the crank, then
lowering the pistons down the holes one by one and bolting them to
the crank.
I thought about removing all the rod bolts and keeping them in order
to their caps to create a little more room in there but i dont know
if even that will actually give me enough clearance.
Is there some way to do this and not yank the heads and throw a
hundred dollar gasket kit into a motor to fix a 6 dollar seal.
needless to say i am so exasperated today i am about ready to roll
the whole car off the cliff and give up
neal zimmerman, eugene oregon
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