E: Engine Comet Mongrel
- Thread starter Cyborg
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You have been watching youtube again, Good Luck, Bill.
Why? Is there someone else on this planet that would strap a marker to a clutch basket with a rubber band?
Not much headway over the holidays, plus Master Petri the mucus machine was visiting for a few days, so recovering from that..... Enough bits arrived, so the timing chest can be completed minus the 1/2 time pinion and the head can be assembled with new valves, springs, seals and rocker feed bolts etc etc..
Like so? The adjusters are stainless, so I drilled a few holes to lighten the load. The cross piece is alloy and will slide through a 3/4" hole in one engine plate, into a hole drilled part way through the opposite engine plate and held in place with a screw.
Is that a new super light weight and adjustable version of a Girdraulic lower link................????.................
Defiantly pushing the limits of the poor little South Bend, but we'l see how it (slowly) goes. The square spacer is an old muff with the fins cut off. It's sandwiched in-between the cylinder and a piece of square plate. The square plate is there so the jaws won't distort the liner. The outer ring is bolted to the plate and the plate is also held in place with a bolt that goes through the headstock and keeps the whole mess flush against the face of the chuck which turns true more or less. We'll see how it goes. If you never hear from me again, you can safely assume it went badly.
Well.... it actually worked. Did the first cut of about .002" and was surprised that it took material out 360 degrees for the entire length of the bore. That tells me that the cylinder jig was running pretty close to true. Piston fitted with .001" clearance. Tomorrow I'll take it the rest of the way with the rigid hone after giving it a good bath.
