privatejobs
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hi I hope theres some one who can return my sanity I have rebuilt my 1600 tp engine 2 times now the first time I built it with new 8 dowel crank new 8 dowel fly wheel new 1641 b/pistons new empi 110 cam all new bearings and a line bore from steve strange ? anyway built it up started it fine run for 30 mins to run in the cam with the new lifters fine changed the oil run again drove around the car park locked it up sat night came to work Monday started up reversed out of garage and stopped suddenly would not turn over tried to turn crank stuck solid so stripped engine and foud the front bearing next to fly wheel stuck hard on crank and dowel pin was at an angle in case removed bearing and it was scored on opposite sides like it was pinched or oval phone steve up and asked his advise he said I torqued the case nuts wrong I torqued to the bently book 24 pounds he said 18 pounds when I futher in spected the bearing it looked like the dowel had pushed into the bearing causing it to swish it so restarted rebuild filled down the dowel pins to clear the bearings measured all the parts again the only thing I could not check was the line bore when setting the end float asked steve who said he sets it to 6/7 thou witch in the specs is to much a said it should be between 3/5 thou he then said it would sieze if I set it to factory settings when I asked why he just dismissed my question and that was that so rebuilt the whole engine again at each stage I made sure you could turn it over freely by hand so started it up yesterday Saturday fine run for nearly 4 hours faffing around with mixture then run out of fuel so today sunday went into work to fill up with fuel started the engine and you guessed it right bonk the same frikken thing wtf am 100 percent sure its not me either the new crank is wrong or the line bore the shells are standard 1 +1 plus steve re did the thrust 1mso any ideas when running its the nuts am at a loss any help would be gratefully accepted thanks