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Kooper271 wrote:Tonight I want to clean up the case. 50/50 mix of lacquer thinner and mineral spirits as recommended by Mike above.


My rod bearings and main bearings have uneven wear patterns so I'm going to take everything to Gable's Machine Shop in Akron to be inspected. They did an excellent job rebuilding my Jetta heads a couple years ago.

Good move on the machine shop. while it's great to do as much as possible yourself, a professional machinist will know what he is doing. Maybe you can watch and learn.

wwebner wrote:

Kooper271 wrote:Tonight I want to clean up the case. 50/50 mix of lacquer thinner and mineral spirits as recommended by Mike above.


My rod bearings and main bearings have uneven wear patterns so I'm going to take everything to Gable's Machine Shop in Akron to be inspected. They did an excellent job rebuilding my Jetta heads a couple years ago.

Good move on the machine shop. while it's great to do as much as possible yourself, a professional machinist will know what he is doing. Maybe you can watch and learn.

Yeah, the other good thing is that they can probably handle all my crank work in-house. I need to find someone to pull my oil gallery plugs as well. I've never used a tap before, and a case seems like an expensive practice piece...

Case is fairly clean. Clean enough to handle easily, man there was a ton of grease on the outside.

I just wanted it clean enough for the machine shop to do whatever they need to, and for transport. For this, the mineral spirit/lacquer thinner worked great. After i have the oil galleries tapped, I'll have it cleaned in a machine.

The case doesn't need an align bore according to the machinist. I'll have the the crank and rods back next week. Also having him pull the gallery plugs and tap/install new ones.

More bearing pictures. Also, LA Products in Akron looked at the case and said it didn't need align bored, but they never actually measured anything. Based on these bearing pictures, what do you think? Is there anywhere else to inspect it that you would recommend?

When I get off work, I'm going to head up to Kelly's Island.

If they did not measure anything, they can not make that assumption. go to a real machine shop.

wwebner wrote:If they did not measure anything, they can not make that assumption. go to a real machine shop.

That's why I dropped the case off at a real shop... They are checking it... For a ridiculous amount of money. Totally forgetting my girlfriends mom used to be a machinist and could have checked it for me for free.

Kooper271 wrote:

wwebner wrote:If they did not measure anything, they can not make that assumption. go to a real machine shop.

That's why I dropped the case off at a real shop... They are checking it... For a ridiculous amount of money. Totally forgetting my girlfriends mom used to be a machinist and could have checked it for me for free.

Talk to RIS

http://rismachine.tumblr.com/

toolbox wrote:

Kooper271 wrote:

wwebner wrote:If they did not measure anything, they can not make that assumption. go to a real machine shop.

That's why I dropped the case off at a real shop... They are checking it... For a ridiculous amount of money. Totally forgetting my girlfriends mom used to be a machinist and could have checked it for me for free.

Talk to RIS

http://rismachine.tumblr.com/

I will keep that in mind for the future. Thank you

Got the connecting rods and crank from the machinist today. Still waiting on the case.


Going to have to pause this project - the CEL that came on in my Jetta while traveling to Kelly's ended up being more serious than I thought. Looks like the new timing belt (5k miles) skipped time by a tooth on the way to Kelly's and then got worse on the way home - it is about 90° off. Right now I'm looking either blown rings, bent valves, or a blown headgasket. 0 compression on all 4 cylinders. Sucks because my heads have 10k miles on them, and the car has 85k on it