ahh.. that friend is no longer a friend. after we got our apartment his mom kicked his ass out on the street and then he lost his job and tried to move in with us, he wouldnt listen so i had to fuckin tell him to get the fuck out. so he got pist off and hates me now. he went into the army and...
greaaat! i called the machine shop and he told me that there should be a stamp on the block of how much he took off...well guess what? no stamp!
so now i dont know how much was taken off. and i dont know what size mhg to put on...oh joy
woo hoo. finally getting this build going.
just got the internals back from the shop and have starting putting this baby together.
whats been done so far:
resized rods w/arp
arp mains
coated stock pistons
ive got a few little goodies that i will be adding here shortly as they...
yeah I got stock coated pistons. we used the stove methood with hot water... we bitched a little but after an hour we finally got it done. my hand is still burnt:( oww. we were smashing one in and it just would not go in until we found out we had it backwards lol.
so those are done and the...
they are not sapposed to fit at rm temp. read the tsrm, your have to heat the pistons up to 140 and then the pins will fit through.
my question was about the best way to heat them.
also, ive got coated pistons, 3 different coatings. one on top one on side and one on bottom.
meh... i should have poped em in the freezer before i left for work... oh well.. ill do it when i get home and hope fore the best.
so when i put it in the oven do i want it in a pan submerged in water?
to get the pistons to the desired temp to get those pin things in, whats the best way to do this? put them in a pan on the stove and heat it up? i searched and this or the oven seemed to be the best way to do it... any sugestions?
drjones here sells them and is a GREAT help to the community with this device. there are a lot of people here on this site that use that device and have extremely great sucess with it.
post any questions you got
you want to resie anyway. so just get the aprs. also, have the shop check the oil pump, the thing is sooo simple it shouldn't need replacing. I its within spec. clean it, shimm it and reinstall it. (things I've learned from the shop and pimptrizkit)
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