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What are the punch marks on the main webs of the block???

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

What are the punch marks on the main webs of the block???

Thanks Richard, Jerry and 34_40. I am not easily offended unless malice is intended. If I can stay humble, I can learn from what ever you have to say. I have no clue what the punch marks mean. They were there when I tore down the block. There's also a bunch of single "B"s stamped next to them, some lower and some upper case.

What I haven't posted would probably have resulted in even more critiques. I have had the crankshaft in and out 3 times now. I realized I had forgot to clean the passages out between the main and rod journals, so figured it was important enough to remove the crank, brush them out and reclean it all. I also thought it would be better to install the timing sprocket separately instead of pounding it on while it was sitting in the bearings. As it turned out, I preheated the sprocket in the oven and it slid on with a minimum of pounding.

By all means, keep those comments coming.

Your pictures show lots of detail---what camera do you use and what size do you upload????With the detail of your finger print plus a little blood dna from a scraped knuckle--------------------------

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Your pictures show lots of detail---what camera do you use and what size do you upload????With the detail of your finger print plus a little blood dna from a scraped knuckle--------------------------

It's just a cheap Nikon CoolPix L20. I'm just pointing and clicking and sometimes need to take multiple shots to get it to focus right. I don't know much about cameras or how to set anything manually. I'm shooting them at 3648x2736, but by the time I post them to Photobucket and they appear on this site, it looks like they are reduced to 800x600.

After a couple years of inactivity I figured I would post an update and close out this thread. I sold the car before the engine was complete and today I sold the unfinished engine.

Thank you so much for all your help. It's been a great experience of which I have learned a lot.

Here's a quick last pic of some of the parts as I assembled them one last time on the bench before they were picked up and carried away.

It's been a great journey.
Thanks
Rollie

I was happy to see your name pop up after the time gap! Went back and read through some of the older posts and enjoyed your level of detail and great pictures. Sorry that you won't be finishing out the build, but understand sometimes it's the better path. Glad too that you were able to sell your parts vs having them rust away! Godspeed in whatever you choose for your journey.