My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

I kept looking at the rods that came with my ebay block, and just didn't like the dings on them or the fact that the oil holes didn't line up in the bushings, so I ordered 3 recon rods from Cummins. Have to say, other than having new wrist pin bushings, mine looked a lot nicer and the rod bolts with them were almost all stretched to the limit. Is there such a thing as a recon part that's actually done with a little pride?

Long head bolts, with doubled up wrist pins worked good to keep the liners from popping out when I spun the crank.



Oh well, everything is in, engine is back to horizontal, and my roll-of-the-dice ebay flywheel housing runs out good and I get to haul my freshly painted one to the scrap yard.



Will pull my housing off one final time, and install new seal. Not sure if I'll put it in the truck before I mount the front cover or not, but I'll have to close shop for a few days until it's buttoned up completely. Not pushing this thing out in the weather half assembled.