Waiting for HM1103. Might as well build a motor!

[danc30]

You GO girl. Welcome Kerianne!!! [smiley=beer.gif]

I am definitely OK with that.

Glad you are enjoying the experience.

Make sure you call shotgun before one of the neighborhood kids does......

Dan

[smmscott]

shotgun......beet you to it KA.   See you in NO.   Evan good work keep it up.

[Eric]

Man, this thread is like candy!  Keep it coming Spud.  Talk about motivation...

-Eric

[Spuddyboy]

Back to the Engine.  

Lubed and installed the final timing set/fuel eccentric/timing cover/water pump combination.  

assembly lube on the timing chain, moly on the fuel pump eccentric.  Putting RTV gasket gunk on the block for the timing cover.  

[Spuddyboy]

Mounted the timing cover and the water pump.  All bolts have sealer applied.  

Harmonic Balancer installed using a special centering tool.....and lots of washers.  anti-seize applied to crank and inside of balancer.  

[Spuddyboy]

Oil pan seal and gasket installed.  RTV applied to block gasket surface and joint between gasket and rubber seal.  

[Spuddyboy]

Pan is fitted.  Bolts are carefully tightened from side to side and front to back in steps.  

This allows any pan warpage to be worked out....and then there's always those last 2 bolts that never fit.  

[Spuddyboy]

Heads are prepped for installation.  Painted in POR and Aluminum topcoat.  we used a razorblade to clean up the edges.  

[Spuddyboy]

Removing valve springs to replace with lightweight test springs.  This will allow us to check valve to piston clearance.  It helps to have a bigassed valve spring compressor.  (I knew I wanted one of those things!)

[Spuddyboy]

These are the lightweight springs.  We can open and close the valve by hand using these.  

[Spuddyboy]

Studs, Guideplates and rocker arms are installed. We decided to determine push rod length while we were checking clearance.

We had an adjustable push rod that was too long.  Another trip to Summit.  

[Spuddyboy]

Thank God for Dry fitting!!  Discovered that the head bolt holes were a tad small for the ARP shoulders.  Had to file them out gently and then wash the heads again.  

[Spuddyboy]

Torqued the head bolts according to the Head manufacturers spec.

[Spuddyboy]

Priming the lifters with oil.  

[Spuddyboy]

We measured our pushrod length for both exhaust and intake.  We then bought a set of 16 at that length from Summit.