Gratuitous Lack Of Moderation - A little stroker build

kastein said:

Something you guys might like: Harbor Freight sells a pretty good knockoff of the Greenlee hydraulic junction box knockout punch tool. It's got a 3/4-16 internal thread on the piston and it's a pull-type cylinder. You can very easily make adapters to use it to press on harmonic balancers, transmission gears, etc etc - anything that needs to go onto the end of a shaft with a puller thread cut into it *without* abusing the bearings the shaft is already suspended by. I just used some 3/4 threaded rod, 1/2 inch threaded rod, a random scrap of DOM, and a 1/2-20 and 3/4-20 nut welded back to back to install the fifth gear on my NV4500, and it'd work just as well for pulling balancers onto cranks quickly with no effort and no cranking on an installer tool.

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Wayne Sihler said:

Block heater ? Don't you live in So.Calf ?

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Wayne Sihler said:

Block heater ? Don't you live in So.Calf ?

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Wayne Sihler said:

Block heater ? Don't you live in So.Calf ?

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ehall said:

why did you install on #6? much easier to plug it in on #1

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cal said:

I spent the next hour installing ARP studs for the valve cover and oilpan.

It makes putting the gasket on a little easier and it looks nice, but it is primarily gratuitous and as it happens, a LOT of work. Russ had no problem with me doing it but refused to take part.

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cal said:

Russ owns a cabin in big Bear that we in theory hang out at during the winter.

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Wayne Sihler said:

And here I thought it was because the clearances were so tight that the block needed to be warmed before start-up to keep from scuffing the pistons.

Gee its 32* this morning, hope I my XJ will start....

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