[6pack] New Engine AUTOpsy

[Kendall Larsen]

Hi James,
The blue bits in this picture are the new Hylomar, blueish, hardens
like silicone,  that I used to seal the rear main seal carrier to the block.
http://picasaweb.google.com/kendalll/TR6Engine08#5243580299697111794
It looks
like it squeezed out quite a bit and bits broke off. I used Permtex #2 for the
rest of the assembly.
My oil gallery has a hex plug on one end, so I can run a
rush down it from one side. The opposite end is blocked though so I guess I
chould have just shoved whatever might have been blocking the gallery down to
that end when I pushed the brush in.
I was able to turn the crank with a
wrench when I was assembling it and timing the crank. I don't think I get to
blame the machine shop for my problems, unless they didn't clean out the
gallery, which I can't prove anyway.
There is a possibility that the spin on
oil filter adapter could have been installed improperly and it was letting the
oil by unfiltered. I haven't checked into this yet though.
Kendall


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From: "Ruffner, James A *HS"
<JAR7U at hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu>
To: Kendall Larsen
<mailkendall at sbcglobal.net>; 6pack List <6pack at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday,
September 8, 2008 6:42:54 PM
Subject: RE: [6pack] New Engine AUTOpsy

What
kind of sealant?  The blue silicone type?  Or Permatex Aviation?  Where were
the pieces of sealant?  And yes, its quite possible that if it was Blue
silicone that some of it jammed the oil gallery.  You said that you ran a
cleaning rod down the gallery.  It's been a while since I pulled a 6's engine
down, but as I remember, the oil gallery is closed at both ends with aluminum
plugs that cannot be pulled out.  Perhaps you meant the cam shaft bore.

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