Dumbo The Flying Elephant

[Larry Hill]

Getting old always makes you look for the easier pathway. My block has five main caps with 26 fasteners with a three step torque sequence on 16 of them. So I decided to take a shortcut and skip the last step and check clearance. It was in no way predictable and off a mile. I finished the last step and everything was as it should be. I knew better.

[Larry Hill]

I am disappointed in making this post.
I've been on hold on customer service for two hours and in that time I have went from 34th in ?Q? to 22 in two hours. Buckeye sales needs to have better customer service and support.

[Larry Hill]

In mixing and matching the bearing shells the SOT (Stupid Oldman Trick) bit me in the butt. Old folks should not try to do any work in their head, there is no room, it is full of useless information. Long story short I put the wrong shells in the caps and the clearances were way off. After disassembling I miked the shells and replaced thick ones with thinner ones and everything looks like it might work. We will know on dyno day.

Thanks Mr JR and Mr Byrd

[Larry Hill]

The Total Seal Ring Grinder was my Christmas, Birthday, and Anniversary gift all rolled into one. Talk about a thoughtful wife. The Total Seal piece is very predictable. If you need another .005" to make target on your ring gap it will do it. It does a good job on on the oil rails too but I can not be heavy handed.
Back to work

[Larry Hill]

Rings are done, I think. I still may have to adjust pull on the oil rails. So far everything has been coming in the shop just in time. Its been fun working on some different aspects of trying to go fast, but I still have more questions than answers.

[Larry Hill]

After checking the top ring it the smaller ring compressor it showed that the ends were butted against each other SOOooooo

I am having to make a ring compressor because the one I ordered got delayed in shipping. Thanks Fed X. I did not have enough material to make a real one just enough to install the piston with the oil ring to check drag.

[Larry Hill]

I got a morning email around 10:30 am or so it stated the package will be delivered by 1:30 pm. We get a different email now stating delivery by end of day. I would guess the ability for fictional writing would be paramount for the interviewing process for a customer service at FedX. It is 5:30 pm and no package today but it was promised yesterday Friday. But what I made worked. The hard part was picking up the angel of the taper, based on the compound it's close to 4.xx degrees. I feel just like Dumbo, working for peanuts.