I do have a very rare spare set of shells, should I try them before anything else or do some measuring first? This is a pain lol
 
yeah looking at the shells it was rubbing on the edge of a couple but then when I saw the much more rubbing in the middle of the majority it was less of a worry lol
 
fett said:
yeah looking at the shells it was rubbing on the edge of a couple but then when I saw the much more rubbing in the middle of the majority it was less of a worry lol
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if block was twisted youd expect contact marks to represent that
 
bugger, well you have seen the pics mate- does it seem that way?

will align boring fix that?
 
Ok, so put all the caps back on and torqued to the insane 110ftlbs that ARP recommend and then had a measure with a vernier, the v is for vertical and the H is horizontal but really it was more diagonal as I couldnt really get the verniers in there very well.All measurements in mm.

v / H
69 / 68.95
68.96 / 68.84
68.96 / 68.94
69.03 / 68.88
69.01 / 68.88


What do you think?
 
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actually no, thing is those studs only work at 110, 55 would be way too loose for them to work according to r/s

what would you think, align bore?
 
v / H
69 / 68.95 2 thou
68.96 / 68.84 over 4 thou
68.96 / 68.94 less than 1 thou
69.03 / 68.88 2 thou
69.01 / 68.88 over 1 thou
 
fett said:
actually no, thing is those studs only work at 110, 55 would be way too loose for them to work according to r/s

what would you think, align bore?
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cant see that those bolts are much better than std ,they are only as strong as block threads ,hard to say 1 or 2 thou can be expected but as you mentioned not accurately meaured, the point about checking at std torque was to see if extra torque caused distortion
 
I gathered that mate, too late now though as they are loctited in with high strength/temp loctite as per instructions. TBH I would go for the stander bolts if I had a do over.

Mark thanks for the conversion, so thats 4 thou out on one, Id better see if thats the worse one!

Who does align boring then? it would fix this right?
 
fett said:
I gathered that mate, too late now though as they are loctited in with high strength/temp loctite as per instructions. TBH I would go for the stander bolts if I had a do over.

Mark thanks for the conversion, so thats 4 thou out on one, Id better see if thats the worse one!

Who does align boring then? it would fix this right?
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your not at line boring yet ,marks on shells didnt show a pattern to me ,4 thou isnt good but is it correct
 
so why is it so tight? hmmm glad I am not at align boring yet as not cheap lol

come on master tech solve it :D :p
 
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