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god man this is barbarick!!!
Yup, Barbaric is us... I'm pretty sure my ancestors sacked your ancestors' village around 1100 or so...
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marking the pistons with a sharpie is not the way to go, number punches are! also with the rods and caps, numbers and direction
I'm sure you're right. I have a sharpie.
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if you were paying attention
Pretty obvious I wasn't. I was more involved in fighting with the ring compressor. James and I had a discussion about assembling pistons/rods which pretty much followed your comments. I took the whole mess apart, every rod cap and bearing. I checked the position of the bearings, in case they had gotten out of place when the crank moved during the first assembly attempt. The rods and caps are marked/numbered from the factory. I made sure they were all facing the right way and then re-torqued them one at a time, rotating the crank in between, as you (and James) suggested.
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on another point, did you screw the main studs in finger tight or tight with a tool of some sort, they should only be finger tight. did you use locktite on the studs into the block
Studs were installed finger tight with a little smear of ARP lube on the threads (not the bottom) as per ARP instructions. I marked them with a silver SHARPIE
so I could look at them during torque-down and make sure they hadn't moved.
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head gaskets, there are different thickness gaskets, get one thinner than you are going to use and put play doh on the piston, now fit the head and the lifters and the pushrods and the rockers and turn the motor over in both directions.
I installed the head gasket recommended by Edelbrock in their assembly instructions. That's as far as I've gotten to this point.
I haven't installed any of the rockers or lifters, etc because I don't have a camshaft yet. I will work my way through the rest of the checks you recommend when I get the $$$ together to buy the camshaft.
In the meantime, I'll keep plugging away at it...
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Peace, Love and "I Ain't No Mechanic!"
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