It's been a busy holiday so far and I have finally gotten to a point that I could get a little time to my self. I kinda cheated some today and took off a half day to get a jump start on my long 4 day weekend. I have been wanting to get some time to start putting together the short block. This afternoon was spent checking my main bearing clearances. It's a long drawn out process as we all know, nothing to terribly hard just alot of installing main caps and pulling them back off repeatedly as I'm moving bearings around to get them in place for acceptable clearance. Once I was happy after a few hours of swapping bearings around I was able to break them back down and clean them up by hand with some 1800 (white) scuff pads. It was close to time for me to go get the wife so I cleaned up and re bagged the block and I'm hoping that tomorrow I can Finally get started assembling the bottom end. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping I have some time to spend on it over the weekend, I actually took a few vacation days even though we are off for the holidays because that way I'm able to call the answering service at 6am and take myself off call till Monday morning.
Long story short, I'm anxious to get started..
Checking main bearing clearances, time consuming but was very happy with the outcome, just think, still have 8 rods to go.
Bottom end parts assembly table, everything ready to go. No survival motorsports adjustable timing set or the used DannyBee I was suppose to get but the guys keeps putting me off and even tried to raise the price, not cool. I'll probably stick it together with the roll master for now till something comes available...
I did manage to knock the cam bearings in .