[SEL] Galloway Babbitt Pour

[Richard Strobel]

<<<To hell with scraping. Add .005 shim and tighten it down.




In theory that should have worked and the job done.  Nope..I must have done 
something wrong as adding .005 to the off side went great, but the on side I 
actually had to remove about .005.,,.........hmmm, oh well.

So now I installed the crank gear, lots of heat on that baby sure helped 
installation, and the gov. slider and now comes the challenge of getting the 
flywheels on. Cleaned them up well and still a tight fit, out will come the 
puller/pusher today.  I hate beating them on.  They were a bear to remove!!

  I ordered a piston ring from Dave Reed yesterday as I broke one..won't go 
there :-((

 btw., the brass screws in the M/B caps were easy to backoff and makes for 
easier scraping <vbg>


  I was never comfortable with heating the parent metal, in this case the 
M/B cap.  I figgered that there should be an easier way w/o using the IR 
temp gun.  So I came up with this:

  Put just a small sliver of babbitt on the cap..not where you're going to 
pour.  Heat the cap and watch the sliver carefully..you should be able to 
tell when it starts to melt.  Remove the heat and do the pour and pray the 
dams hold.  Oh yea..it helps also to install the grease hole 
plug....aaarrrghhh..ha, ha.

Well enuf blabber for now.

later
RickinMt.


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