Ruby's Rebuild Redux
03-20-2010, 10:37 AM
#106
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Hi Mario- I'm going to maybe get an hour on it Saturday. I've got to watch the start of Sebring, and do a couple of things around the house-then off to a lunch and back to take the wife out for her b-day. Sunday will be my most productive day. Next weekend should be more productive.
03-21-2010, 02:02 PM
#110
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So yesterday, as I had a number of things going on, I only had some sporadic time to devote. I first was loading the pistons into the barrels, and got hung up immediately trying to install a circlip in one side of each piston. With the piston on the bench, it was pain. I was dreading doing the other side with the piston on the rod and working around the forest of headstuds. There's a tool Stomski racing offers for injecting circlips easily-I was about two seconds from waiting until Monday and ordering one for $84. It would've been worth it to avoid aggravation and taking the chance of a flying circlip ending up in the case.
I wandered around Home Depot searching for an implement to help me and settled on a coupling for 3/4" copper pipe. The OD was a bit too big, so after a couple of goes at machining on my bench grinder, I ended up beveling one side enough to go into the piston enough to secure this device, and then I used a 15mm socket on a long extension as the plunger to push the clip into place. It worked pretty well. That made me happy.
Then, as I was rushing to get the last piston in the barrel to go to a bbq, I cracked the oil ring. So, I've probably got to order a set of rings Monday to get the one.
Nobody to blame but myself.
My tool:
I wandered around Home Depot searching for an implement to help me and settled on a coupling for 3/4" copper pipe. The OD was a bit too big, so after a couple of goes at machining on my bench grinder, I ended up beveling one side enough to go into the piston enough to secure this device, and then I used a 15mm socket on a long extension as the plunger to push the clip into place. It worked pretty well. That made me happy.
Then, as I was rushing to get the last piston in the barrel to go to a bbq, I cracked the oil ring. So, I've probably got to order a set of rings Monday to get the one.
Nobody to blame but myself.My tool:
03-21-2010, 02:06 PM
#111
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It was good, they only had about 10 cars on the run, but they ended up out in the desert, so it was a long one.
I only went over long enough to have a beer and check out Bill's garage: Carrera GT, Enzo, F-40, F430 and GT3RS, I guess the AMG was somewhere, but I didn't see it.
I only went over long enough to have a beer and check out Bill's garage: Carrera GT, Enzo, F-40, F430 and GT3RS, I guess the AMG was somewhere, but I didn't see it.
03-21-2010, 06:38 PM
#112
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Well, it is a 1.7L sort of.....
I got the 1-2-3 heads and cam tower on today. I'm probably more paranoid about the sealing of the cam towers than about anything else on this project. Knowing I had a small leak from my cam tower seal last time really bugged me. This time I used Threebond 1194 there-last time it was Loctite 574.
So, if I can get a ring to replace the one I flubbed yesterday, sometime this week, I'll get the other side done next weekend, then on to the "dreaded" cam timing...
I got the 1-2-3 heads and cam tower on today. I'm probably more paranoid about the sealing of the cam towers than about anything else on this project. Knowing I had a small leak from my cam tower seal last time really bugged me. This time I used Threebond 1194 there-last time it was Loctite 574.
So, if I can get a ring to replace the one I flubbed yesterday, sometime this week, I'll get the other side done next weekend, then on to the "dreaded" cam timing...
03-21-2010, 06:52 PM
#113
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A few more pics....
It sure is pretty relaxing and fun building. It is as clean as you'll ever be doing wrenching on a Porsche. I do know it takes concentration on my part to think it all through as you go, and a few steps and the end goal ahead at the same time.
Yesterday when I broke that ring, I rushing to finish that task, and I shouldn't have. I've got to remember that I'm under no time constraints, other than it is now Spring in San Diego County, and one wants to drive when it's sunny and in the 70's. My wife tells me to sell my truck and buy a newer Porsche as a driver....quite tempting, as much as having another Porsche again would be, I need my truck.
When I built the engine the last time, I still had the 928 to take care of the itch.
It sure is pretty relaxing and fun building. It is as clean as you'll ever be doing wrenching on a Porsche. I do know it takes concentration on my part to think it all through as you go, and a few steps and the end goal ahead at the same time.
Yesterday when I broke that ring, I rushing to finish that task, and I shouldn't have. I've got to remember that I'm under no time constraints, other than it is now Spring in San Diego County, and one wants to drive when it's sunny and in the 70's. My wife tells me to sell my truck and buy a newer Porsche as a driver....quite tempting, as much as having another Porsche again would be, I need my truck.
When I built the engine the last time, I still had the 928 to take care of the itch.
03-22-2010, 07:52 PM
#115
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Well, I was please today to learn I didn't have to buy a complete set of 3.4L rings, and I didn't even have to buy an entire set for one cylinder. The oil ring was available as a single piece, so only about a $20 goof!
03-22-2010, 10:11 PM
#119
Ed, fantastic project! I wish I could afford an additional car like yours to wrench on too. What fun and learning. I just read you no longer have the 928. That was a beauty too.
Looking forward to following the rest of you install.
Looking forward to following the rest of you install.
