RE: IML: 413 rod knock etc

[darrell kershaw <darrells59imperial@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello kenyon

 

I thought you might want to hear this.

 

on a small block engine I had owned the wet oil line going to the guage had broken and caused the engine to run out of oil, and caused the number 3 rod to spin a bearing.

 

I repaired the engine while it was still in the car, wasn't to much trouble.

I went to the autoparts store and bought 3 different sets of bearings to help save myself extra trips back and forth, I bought standard , .010 , .020 bearings and several plastigauge . my uncle polished the main and rod journels for me as his hands would fit up inside the block better. after we used the plasticgauge to we used both the standard and the .010 bearings we also replaced the oil pump and installed new oil line to the oil pressure guage. the engine ran for years after that.

 

by the way , you will need a good pair of goggles to keep trash out of you'r eyes, the job would have went much better if i had used them at first.

Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

--- Brooks Harkey wrote:

> Kenyon,
>
> If you're going to go the route you're planning to
> go, you've GOT to change
> those 2 rods.

OK. Will do that. They are both really messy.

I am planning to do the other rod bolts/bearings at
the same time. Steve suggested looking at the cam
bearings, but unless the others are a problem will
likely leave that alone and hope for the best.

Will look at the main bearings but not planning on
doing them unless there is obvious reason. I
"believe" that the car was operated without load on
the failed parts and that there isn't metal shavings
contaminating the entire system, but will look anyway.

Sump was very clean and the bearings appear to have
been smeared around on the crank but are still whole
and not fragmented. I think I may have gotten off
light, but will wait to see.

I will use the advice given gratefully. The men's
belt as a sandpaper/emerycloth pull tool, replacing
the conrods, and so forth are all super ideas.

I'll take photos and document it all and put it up
later for everyone to see. Can't gaurantee that I'll
have a camera in the car if it breaks down on me
later, but if I do it right that hopefully won't be
part of the story.

-Kenyon




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