Saturday I had planned to drop in my motor into Oscar my truck. My good buddy Warren Webb generously offered to come over and help me out. Two extra hands are ALWAYS nice on a big job like that. Couple that with a very experience work partner in the nuances of Studes...WIN/WIN for me.
Well turns out it is a good thing I did. The manual says absolutely nothing about checking the "run out" of the crank to bell housing in the Engine section of the manual. It does however describe the process in the Transmission section.
Well I have done nothing to the trans other than drain and flush the trans and put in fresh oil. I never thought of reading the manual on that section.
We are getting close to dropping in the motor and Warren says "did you check the runout?"
"The what?"
Well I was missing one locating pin...but no biggie right? Wrong. We pull the bell housing and mount it up and borrow a dial indicator....she is about 0.085" out of spec with only 0.006" as the magic number....OH MAN.
We thouroughly clean all surfaces and use a 2" fiber disc on a die grinder to really clean everything. I go inspect the old 232 and find that the missing pin is burried in the block. We drift punch out the pin try it again. After a bit of massaging and tapping we get it down into the 0.010" ish range. I am comfortable with that { I am sure all of you purist, alarmist are crindging} but 0.004-.0005" is very miniscule on a 63 year old customized truck and I am sure many cars out there are much more than that.
Have it not been for Warren and me asking me if I had done that and then searching all over the manual until we found the spec I would be running Oscar with 0.075" TOO much and that could quickly have cost me a trans.
This is why just having a manual is not always the answer, it is having a place like this as a resource that can make all of the difference in the world.
So in summary....THANK YOU WARREN !!!
And thank you all for the input on all of my stupid questions and indulging me even when the answer may be somewhere, but human input is often SO much better.
Kelly
Well turns out it is a good thing I did. The manual says absolutely nothing about checking the "run out" of the crank to bell housing in the Engine section of the manual. It does however describe the process in the Transmission section.
Well I have done nothing to the trans other than drain and flush the trans and put in fresh oil. I never thought of reading the manual on that section.
We are getting close to dropping in the motor and Warren says "did you check the runout?"
"The what?"
Well I was missing one locating pin...but no biggie right? Wrong. We pull the bell housing and mount it up and borrow a dial indicator....she is about 0.085" out of spec with only 0.006" as the magic number....OH MAN.
We thouroughly clean all surfaces and use a 2" fiber disc on a die grinder to really clean everything. I go inspect the old 232 and find that the missing pin is burried in the block. We drift punch out the pin try it again. After a bit of massaging and tapping we get it down into the 0.010" ish range. I am comfortable with that { I am sure all of you purist, alarmist are crindging} but 0.004-.0005" is very miniscule on a 63 year old customized truck and I am sure many cars out there are much more than that.
Have it not been for Warren and me asking me if I had done that and then searching all over the manual until we found the spec I would be running Oscar with 0.075" TOO much and that could quickly have cost me a trans.
This is why just having a manual is not always the answer, it is having a place like this as a resource that can make all of the difference in the world.
So in summary....THANK YOU WARREN !!!
And thank you all for the input on all of my stupid questions and indulging me even when the answer may be somewhere, but human input is often SO much better.
Kelly
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