BC847
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- May 14, 2006
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Hope everyone got some time off for the Labor Day holiday. If you didn't, thanks for holding the fort down.
I recently broke my block and with finding a replacement and finally having it machined, I got on with cleaning it up.
Chased all the bolt thread stuff.
Bottom-tapped the head for 12mm studs.
Bottom-tapped the main-bearing bosses for 14mm studs.
Used the rifle cleaning kit to thoroughly clean all the lube-oil passages. They were nasty.
Removed all those stress-risers that I could find.
Typical of the passenger's side main-bearing boss webbing:
Made all of that go away. (All cutting/grinding/sanding was done inline with the webbing. All corners/edges are rounded).
The driver's side wasn't much better.
I'm glad I checked because I found five instances where there was a sharp "ding" in the webbing, just where it meets the main-bearing boss.
Typical:
Made those go away by blending with the adjacent surfaces.
Then cleaned up the rest of the driver's side.
I recently broke my block and with finding a replacement and finally having it machined, I got on with cleaning it up.
Chased all the bolt thread stuff.
Bottom-tapped the head for 12mm studs.
Bottom-tapped the main-bearing bosses for 14mm studs.
Used the rifle cleaning kit to thoroughly clean all the lube-oil passages. They were nasty.
Removed all those stress-risers that I could find.
Typical of the passenger's side main-bearing boss webbing:
Made all of that go away. (All cutting/grinding/sanding was done inline with the webbing. All corners/edges are rounded).
The driver's side wasn't much better.
I'm glad I checked because I found five instances where there was a sharp "ding" in the webbing, just where it meets the main-bearing boss.
Typical:
Made those go away by blending with the adjacent surfaces.
Then cleaned up the rest of the driver's side.