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Putting it all together
New York in the Spring
Bottom end
Sadly, this is an area of the restoration that I took few pictures of. I took virtually no photos of the disassembly; this would have helped great during reassembly. I wanted to show this closeup of one if the rod ends. They have these locking tab washers which keep them from backing out and becoming loose. You have to bend these tabs away to remove the bold, then bend them back up after the bolt is reinstalled and torqued to specification. The main bearing caps are kept in place by cotter pins. I almost missed this step during assembly until I happened to notice them mentioned in the service manual.
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New Tappets
These photos are most definitely NOT in chronological order, but I have arranged them in what would be the normal progression of assembly. My old tappets (or lifters if you prefer) had some pitting on the surfaces. One of them is shown on the right side of the photo. When I took them to my local machine shop he found that they were also worn and tapered. A loosely fitting tappet will make noise and allow oil to flow past them in the bore which can cause loss of oil pressure. I purchased new units (left) from ACCC for about the same price as it would have cost to have the old ones machined, which also was not an option due to the extreme wear.
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"Rock on"
I had the rocker arm assembly rebuilt by Rocker Arms Unlimited out of California about a year and some months ago. They have been sitting in their original box wrapped in plastic, waiting to be installed. Finally, the day came and they look almost too beautiful to cover up. Rocker Arms Unlimited did an excellent job, they chrome-moly the shaft and even drilled out the oil hole through the shaft to allow better oil flow to the rockers. There is also a small oil feed pipe that must be installed. It is not shown in this photo, but you can see the hole that it feeds on top of the assembly about two-thirds of the way back. I should also mention, I had the head rebuilt by Mike's Performance and Machine in Las Cruces - he cleaned it up and replaced the valve seats. Another easy step to miss is the installation of the circlip at the top of the valve above the retainers. (no photo) |