RE: IML: 18 year anniversary

["Robin Giesbrecht" <robings@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you sure you have the correct caps for the rods? They are mated. I ahd 
the same problem on a 350 Chev a while back and turns out I had mixed a cap  
with another rod.

Robin Giesbrecht
72 Imperial

> From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
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> To: IML <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: IML: 18 year anniversary
> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 19:56:48 -0700 (PDT)
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> That's how long it's been since my last engine
> rebuild.
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> Remember that spun bearing on the 1962 that I was
> going to try a get-me-by on?
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> nope.
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> Well the crank was really fried.  I used a mens belt
> with sandpaper and polished it, but it looked like
> marbled meat with all the grooves and pits in it.
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> My $100 repair is now sitting at $600 and I've lapped
> the valves, gotten a replacement crank (free!!!), 2
> new con-rods, new bearings all around, and gasket
> sets.
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> I wasn't aware that there are freeze plugs in the
> heads.  One was weeping.  I did those too.
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> The engine is now sitting in the garage all painted up
> and new-looking.  I also did new rings and honed the
> cylinders, so that's looking up too.
>
> Problem is that two of the con rods, when tightened
> bind the crank up so much that it won't spin.  I'll be
> taking them out and having them reconditioned - I
> presume that they are not the correct diameter
> anymore.
>
> Otherwise, things are going well.  What a bunch of
> work though!!  I've got 3 8-hour days in and presume
> that there are 2 more before I'm driving the car.
> It's nice not to be paying $3000 for an engine rebuild
> and all the money to remove/reinstall, but I'm not so
> certain that I'll be doing this on the 1973 and the
> 1970, both of which will "want" a rebuild in the
> coming years.
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> I think that I'll maybe look at having a spare 440
> that I can have redone and ready to plop in, rather
> than having the car down for the week.
>
> Kenyon Wills
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