[Shotimes] Car won't start after dying

[Leigh Smith]

Rod bearings can be done in a home garage. The oil pan has to come off, no
big deal.
But if one spun, the crank needs to get pulled to have it machined or
replaced.
That is a major job if you leave the engine in the car and not recommended
for a home garage.
To pull the crank, you have to pull the tranny and remove the subframe,
leaving the 450 lb engine floating on some type of support a few inches over
your head.
Thats too dangerous unless a professional does it with the right tools.
At home it is actually easier to pull the engine, flip it and then do the
crank.
Have a good machine shop cut the crank to the next undersize.
Whether you do the rings, etc is up to you and your budget.
$150 for rod & main bearings, $100 to cut the crank.
Lee
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerby Haltom" <kerbyh@netzero.net>
To: <Dynon007@aol.com>; <leighsm@comcast.net>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Car won't start after dying


> Rod and Main bearings aren't that hard.  But if one spun, and I'd lay big
> money that it did, then the crank is ruined.  So it would need to be
> replaced as well.  I've never tried that with the engine in the car, and I
> wouldn't.  So you'd need to pull the engine, and replace all of that.  If
> you've gone to that much trouble, new rings, gaskets, etc wouldn't be that
> much more work.  Then you would have rebuilt the engine, which has been
the
> consensus so far here...
>
> Kerby
>
> At 03:31 PM 7/5/04 -0400, Dynon007@aol.com wrote:
> >How hard are rod bearings to do? Can't all that be replaced except the
crank.
> >
> >
> >Kent
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