Subject: Re: To Teardown or Not Teardown?
Author: Bruce Giller
Date: Oct 9, 2002, 8:05 AM
Post ID: 1711174757
Ah, now I recall that technical term, 'big end float'. Way too many
things to remember... But I've got another Alfa engine to rebuild that
I might do soon.
But it was fun and a great feeling to find out that the engine actually
worked...and I was the one who did it.
Bruce
PS - I guess I should have wrote, 'to enhance oil flow'....
PSS - and I was actually thinking of 'hand scraping' the bearings until
a machinist told me that it was a highly skilled job and the modern
plain bearings are very precisely manufactured. So I dropped the idea.
Martin Cooke wrote:
oh i see now. you are of course talking about getting the right end float. i didn't understand you can actually do what i was suggesting to get a con rod back in spec if eye bore is too large, well not with a file really, then rebore hole to correct dimensions. cookie ps. in the interests of remaining a smartarse, i would point out that the gap lets oil out, not in though :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Giller" <bgil-@mitre.org> To: <Loopfram-@topica.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: Re: To Teardown or Not Teardown?
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