"MM54" (mm54mk2)
07/29/2018 at 21:15 • Filed to: '71Chevelle
3
6|
"MM54" (mm54mk2)
07/29/2018 at 21:15 • Filed to: '71Chevelle | 3
| 6 |
A good friend of mine got married on Saturday (hence I had to miss the oppo rally - boo!) but I got home this afternoon and picked up where I left off with tearing down the 350.
Everything except the oil galley and freeze plugs are out. The bores look pretty good, very little ridge at the top and not much scoring, however #2 is pitted - there was some water
in there at some point
. I’ll have to see what the machine shop thinks, but the pitting might be deep enough to merit boring it out. The crank looks good though
(I forgot to take a picture, sorry). No damage to be found, may need a polish in a couple spo
ts,
but nothing that should require grinding it. It fit really nicely on my shelf.
Pistons are in good shape as well, some had a little more wear on the skirt than others, but nothing heavy or deep. I will have to check the clearances, but first impression is that if the block doesn’t need bored, they should be reusable.
Need to get this block and crank
to a machine shop to clean
and check out and go from there. While I sort that out I have a few other pending matters to address before work will resume on dismantling the Chevelle and otherwise continuing that work.
lone_liberal
> MM54
07/29/2018 at 21:41 |
|
Well, if the pitting forces you to bore the cylinders you can get fancy forged pistons so you can get some forced induction later! Or not.
|
MM54
> lone_liberal
07/29/2018 at 22:04 |
|
Yeah, probably not. Some basic hyper
eutectic flat-tops should
be fine for my purposes.
Urambo Tauro
> MM54
07/29/2018 at 22:48 |
|
Wait a minute, my sister just got married on Saturday ...
|
MM54
> Urambo Tauro
07/29/2018 at 23:24 |
|
Was it an outdoor ceremon
y with perfect weather?
|
Urambo Tauro
> MM54
07/29/2018 at 23:28 |
|
Nope. Weather was great, but only the reception was outdoors. Well, that’s kind of a relief then. I’d sure hate to not have recognized you.
shop-teacher
> MM54
07/30/2018 at 00:33 |
|
Not too bad looking. Hopefully the pitting won't make you need to buy pistons.