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Lock up your daughters!
We recently re-built a chevy 350 in Auto-tech class. Everyone split up into groups of two and got to rebuild a motor with a partner. It took us about a month because we only got to work on it a couple hours each school day. We completely tore it down to the block, honed out the cylinders, cleaned everything with solvent, and put everything back together to torque spec. My favorite parts were taking the piston rings off and putting them back on, and also taking the valves out of the heads. There were a few parts I didn't like though. Re-seating the heads for the valves sucked and measuring all the parts to see if they were within tolerance was a pain. Adjusting the valves wasn't very fun either.
It was cool to start them up after rebuilding them. At first, we had a timing issue and one of the cylinders was dead because one of the nuts holding a rocker arm on was too tight. The valve was stuck open, so it didn't have compression. After we set the timing right and loosened the rocker arm nut, it ran great!
Took a video of us getting it started. First couple times weren't great, but near the end of the video around 1:45 it's shooting flames out of the headers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif
It was cool to start them up after rebuilding them. At first, we had a timing issue and one of the cylinders was dead because one of the nuts holding a rocker arm on was too tight. The valve was stuck open, so it didn't have compression. After we set the timing right and loosened the rocker arm nut, it ran great!
Took a video of us getting it started. First couple times weren't great, but near the end of the video around 1:45 it's shooting flames out of the headers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif