Taking bets(no money involved) How long will this engine last?
Hey folks.
Well I've broken all the rules with this one!
First let me say that I know I should have taken this engine and it's parts to a machine shop to have them hot tanked. But I didn't lol ! Anyway, I pulled my 273 apart after sending the heads out to be done because I found that it was pretty grungy inside. Well I lost my grip on the snowball and it started rolling down hill FAST! This thing wasn't just a little grungy! There were chunks of solidified oil and crap though everything soooo...I disassembled the hole mess then:
I visually checked the bearings and found that none were burned or scored badly so...I am reusing them :D. I removed all the oil gallery plugs so I could clean out the galleries and passages. I pulled a bottle brush back and forth through the galleries using a piece of a throttle cable wire then flushed everything out with "MANY" cans of parts cleaner. Flushed out the crank and cam with more cans of cleaner and blew everything out with compressed air. Popped the plugs out of the rocker shafts and used the bottle brush to clean the shafts out the best I could. Then I reinstalled all of the plugs and reassembled everything with assembly lube (had to do something the right way lol). I used new gaskets and seals etc. Oh and by the way I didn't even remove the pistons :p. It sure was a trick getting the crank back in while juggling the rods by myself haha. I had pieces of hose on the rod bolts to avoid scratching though and that helped tremendously. And I guess I was holding my tongue the right way though because all went well (I think).
So now to the bets!!!
Who bets this thing will flush some of the leftover crud through and rip up a bearing or two on first start up?
First road test?
First week or?.....
Give er yer best estimate folks. I'm not betting at all but you sure know what I'm hoping for... Years of faithful service haha ya right :realcrazy:. I won't have the engine reinstalled for a week or two since spring things just take up a lot of time so I'm working on it when I get a minute here and there.
Ok. Let the games begin
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Thanks, Wally