Alloutofdonuts wrote:The flex pipes are intelligent. something I left out and I'll probably have a crack somewhere before long. When/if I go the turbo route I'll stick some of those on mine. Lookin' Spiffy Marc :-D You bringing this to "Aqua-fest"(lol)?
eventuallyblue wrote:I'm having de-ja-vu looking at this thread! Good luck man!
a4kquattro wrote:And thats not even filling up the oil cooler (10 qts total is supposed to put things at the full mark on the dipsitck, yeesh!)
a4kquattro wrote:And thats not even filling up the oil cooler (10 qts total is supposed to put things at the full mark on the dipsitck, yeesh!)
newt wrote:Not quite sure what those do for ya?? Those bolts/pulleys must come off in a timing belt job, otherwise you'll end up with slight cam errors relative to both the crank, and the other bank. You've gotta lock the cams from the rear distributor locations, then pop both front pulleys so they freely rotate on the cams, then tension the belt with everything locked, then tighten the cam pulleys down. :wink:a4kquattro wrote:Turns out neither of the cam locking tools I got fit the v8 so I.. improvised
a4kquattro wrote:So in the middle of the job I went to go grab a sharpie out of my toolbox to mark the camshafts when I saw something moving in the corner of my eye as I started walking back toward the front of the car....
yodasfro wrote:Ronald G Wainwright+ wrote:Well Semple, Semple, Semple.[/quote]
Keith keith keith
Um you mean Bruce, Bruce, Bruce...
But I know you probley figured that Semple is alot closer thats why I suggest Semple.
But Bruce is sending me some stuff & I can see if you can through in the pass side cover for you Marc. Let me know.
I'll PM you
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 4:47 amUpdate: I tried starting the car yesterday but couldn't get the VR signal to stay consistant. While cranking its jumping around quite a bit, not staying constant at 59 like I want to see. Probably just the air gap but I'll need to muck with it some more to get it stable.
Meanwhile, I tried test fitting the radiator and bumpers, looks like I gots the wrong radiator :-/
Its very close to the one Nate ran but slightly wider, wide enough so that I'd almost have to hammer it between the headlight slats to make it fit. I ordered up one of these instead, which is narrower by about 2.5", but otherwise the same dimensions:
Summit PN SUM-380328 (27x19.5x2.25)
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 4:47 pmAlright, interesting happenings today. Here are some radiator test-fit pics from last weekend when I figured out the one I ordered is a little too wide
Fast forward to today. I really wanted to get the car started today but ran into an interesting snag. I noticed that the starter was working harder than it should have been. I at first attributed this to a dead battery so I borrowed a friend's 150amp starting cart while I got the VR sensor dialed in. Problem was, the starter was STILL slow even when cranked up to the starter cart. I started to panic when I noticed that the crank was REALLY hard to turn over (I measured 160 ft lbs to just turn the engine over). I pulled the plugs and the effort of rotating the crank was the same. feck I'm thinking, I bent the valves (this is after I had pulled the crank pulley to install the 60-2 wheel, and I discovered I didn't follow the right procedure for maintaining valve timing). So the next logical step was to try to peek at the intake valves with the manifold off to see if any of them were bent. So I pulled the manifold, they all looked fine.
So next up, I pulled the heads to take a closer look:
All the valves are fine (phew!) but the crank is still WAY too hard to turn.
So at this point, I pulled the motor figuring there had to be some kind of problem on the flywheel end. Hmm, what's that in the bell housing there?
Metal shavings in the starter hole? hmm..
All making sense now. It appears that my brand new starter motor in the fully extended position extends past the steel flywheel teeth. That normally wouldn't be a problem, except that the v8 aluminum flywheel isn't machined so that the teeth can pass harmlessly by. What was happening was the starter was sticking in the extended position making it very difficult to crank the motor by hand (basically fighting the windings on the starter). Not sure if I'll have the flywheel milled down or if I'll just make up a spacer for the starter motor so it doesn't extend quite so far out yet.
Sooo, the fact that I've now had to pull the heads on this car makes for a change in plans. Yo J, we need to talk turbos, stat
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 4:54 pmDoh! Damn Marc, you don't mess around! Very odd, haven't seen this on the flywheels yet, any idea what dimention could be off? Look like you could throw the FW in a lathe and remove some of that material to clear the teeth, or a small spacer to move things out, interesting.
Yea, lets talk turbos
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 5:20 pmJShadzi wrote:Doh! Damn Marc, you don't mess around! Very odd, haven't seen this on the flywheels yet, any idea what dimention could be off? Look like you could throw the FW in a lathe and remove some of that material to clear the teeth, or a small spacer to move things out, interesting.
Yea, lets talk turbos
dos t3 super 60's por favor
I actually need a bunch of parts, part of the reason I called earlier today, wanted to ask Nate what kind of other parts I might need (I suspect he might have used two intake manifold gaskets too, etc).
When's a good time to call? I want to make sure I get the parts for next weekend.
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 5:24 pmJShadzi wrote:Doh! Damn Marc, you don't mess around! Very odd, haven't seen this on the flywheels yet, any idea what dimention could be off?
The teeth either need to be 'longer', or the flywheel should be machined down so that the valley on the flywheel teeth extends a bit further, about an extra 1/4" or so.Look like you could throw the FW in a lathe and remove some of that material to clear the teeth, or a small spacer to move things out, interesting.
Since I dont have a lathe handy I'm probably going to go for option #2. No biggie, but figured you guys should know for the next run of flywheels.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 3:26 amGeez Marc, you know how to make a guys hart jump a beat or two. Even though it's not my motor anymore I still feel it an extended part of the familey. I started to feel faint but glad to have kept going & read that the motor was OK(you should add a Phew emoticon).
But let me see if I can understand. So the starter teeth were extending past the flywheel teeth & binding obviousley on the top of the flywheel & couldn't return cause of the binding?
?, if you make up a spacer for the starter will you need longer starter bolts?
& why did this happen?
