Thread: Picked up my Son's engine yesterday.

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the issue is from those big mains---

all engines have the same deal as far as oil pans/trays---down there there the oil pan don't know what it says on the valve cover--

The big mains in this case might be an advantage as more oil could get throw up on the walls and camshaft.

All these late years forged stroker crank assys with rods that don't have squirt holes, minimun or no side clearance have pretty much eliminated an area of the factory oiling /luberacation process that have been in these engines forever and now we blame failures on no zinc in the oil when really we have eliminated 50 % of our lube system

yep jerry i think we talked about this the older sbc had them and so did many others . i been doing nothing at the shop for the last two weeks but rebuilding BBC rods and working on Harley Davidson Stuff .i will BEeeeee so happy when i am all done i came by a very old set of 396 rods with the squirt holes cut in them still a very good ideal not hard to do to a set of rods

Well at least it sounds like you got out of that sailboat bilge, Pat.

Tonight Dan and I installed the rings on the pistons and got the pistons and rods installed in the block. Pat, the rings and bearings I got from you are NICE. They went on much easier than the last set we used, not sure why, but they did.

I feel REAL confident that we got things right this time. We spent a lot of time this week filing the rings and we installed them into the same holes we filed them for. The pistons slid into the block with no issues either.

I am going to order a degree wheel and learn how to do it. I already have a Sterritt dial indicator to use. Here is a picture of the block tonight when we ended up.

Don

Looks good Don.