Block was cleaned and painted. First thing i did after that was install most of the oil galley plugs (had to order a few i was missing) and installed the freeze plugs that i could get to.
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Next i installed the oil filter adapter, the old one had a bypass and hookups for a remote oil cooler but it had a bunch of crack marks in the bottom of it.
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I then quickly found out my crank was .010 under. i never took the time to ask or look, I just asked the machinest to check it out.. they sent everything out to be balanced and then polished it. So now i have a set of federal mogul std bearings. I then ordered clevite 77 .010 under bearings for it and also broke down and bought a set of Mic's and a Dial bore guage from summit. At this point i'm not sure if the dial bore guage is acurate. I mic'd the crank journals, set the bore guage to zero and then measured the bearings and i kept getting the following measurements...
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My attempts with the dial bore guage
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And Plastiguage...
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Fiat had told me that he remembered that the race bearings from kings bearings had more clearance than all the other .010 under bearings he had used. I called XRP and the guy told me that yes the bearings where closer to .009 than .010. . I orderd a set and the clearance opened up alittle more but not the .001 i was looking for. After wondering if my measurments where off or if my tools where not accurate i decided to try some plastiguage and compare. Plastiguage said i was at .003 for most and some alittle bit larger.. I decided to just put it together with the better bearings (kings).
Here's a pic of the kings bearing, they sure do look nicer than the clevite and FM bearings...
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