It is inevitable that when line boring blocks that you will have a “gosh dang” experience. And you end up with one bearing that needs to be “fixed”!!
So I had a centre main cap that I was not happy with the adherence of the babbit. I have 5 good surfaces and 1 that I decided to redo.
So now the struggle is how to realign everything.
I had a moment of inspiration and mentioned it to a friend and he said he had successfully used the same concept.
So here are some pictures of the process this morning. This engine has a “C” crank cut to standard A size and full pressure.
An idea I tried today
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Les Schubert
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Les Schubert
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Les Schubert
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Les Schubert
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Re: An idea I tried today
- And here is the cap to bore
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Gene_French
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Re: An idea I tried today
Les:
i have bored the babbitt lined inserts of the 5 mainbearing Dodge Brothers 4 cyl. engines by placing bronze bushings in the #2 and #4 mainbearing saddle in the block and the inserts in the center mainbearing saddle ... worked great ... always an optimist ...Gene French
i have bored the babbitt lined inserts of the 5 mainbearing Dodge Brothers 4 cyl. engines by placing bronze bushings in the #2 and #4 mainbearing saddle in the block and the inserts in the center mainbearing saddle ... worked great ... always an optimist ...Gene French
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Les Schubert
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Re: An idea I tried today
So got the line boring done today. Re aligned within about.001”!!
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John Warren
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Re: An idea I tried today
Good deal, thanks for sharing!! jw
24-28 TA race car, 26 Canadian touring, 25 Roadster pickup, 14 Roadster, and 11AB Maxwell runabout
Keep it simple and keep a good junk pile if you want to invent something
Keep it simple and keep a good junk pile if you want to invent something