My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

Had a little bit of time today and since the replacement crank showed up, I was able to get it in.



.010" of end clearance checks out, rear seal area runout has one high spot @.003", front seal area .002" Crank turns nice and smooth. Since there's the chance that it may be 2-3 months before this is finished, I chose to assemble with Lubriplate 105.


Got it flipped over and did a quick check of the liners. Kind of frustrated with with the Central Tools sled. It's not perfectly flat and it doesn't take much of a pressure change to affect reading by .0015". I clamped down #1 and #4 with readings of .0115-.012" Pulled #1 liner, removed the shim and clamped down I get -.021" So, depending on how 2-6 check out, I'll either order .036" or .0365" shims to put me at .015" I know my stacked brass shims "settled" about .002" when I pulled the IPD parts out 2 years ago. S/S shouldn't have the crush brass does, so .015" should hold true.

One big observation was how tight the liners fit in the new block at the deck. In hindsight, I should have shopped for another buildable block back in the beginning...