Susan by Tristared

2 minute(s) of a 45 minute read

Thanks to all for the encouraging words - Another productive Sunday in the garage…

The crank is back from the workshop, the big ends needed .25 off, the mains were fine – it was balanced as a matter of course. The all-important numbers and bearings with a liberal coating of Graphogen – marvellous stuff…




93mm Pistons are now in… That’s a fun job isn’t it… You can just about see how much the piston protrudes from the block with the HC pistons.




ARP Mains bolts in, Conrods to follow.




I sheared a bolt trying to remove the thermostat housing when stripping the engine down, which I later managed to remove with the judicial use of a blow lamp. To make sure this doesn’t happen again I decided to rebuild the engine using stainless steel Allen bolts. First thing back on was the fuel pump blanking plate.




Driving home one of the coolant hoses let go on my stand in engine, after I treated it to an oil change of all things… had to stop every ten miles to fill up with Evian - Unbelievable.

Feeler gauges showed the height to be around .25 thou so - 0.635mm... The Gaskets I've got which are 93mm in bore already are around 2mm thick. I don't know how much they compress by but, if the crank doesn't turn when the heads are on - I've got some problems.

Pistons were NOS Ford items from:

s p e c i a l i s e d e n g i n e s.co.uk