Progress Thread Project 302
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There is a bunch of books on building the sbf from mild to wild, just cruise the net and pick your poison. I would also look for a assembly manual, I have one specific to my 89 mustang, I think I got mine from motorbooks.
The brown discs are overheat sensors..tells the machine shop that last rebuilt the heads whether or not the engine was ran hot enough to cause some problem that they may have to fix under some warranty.
Yes love summit, however they apparently didn't have anything that I ordered in the Las Vegas store, it all came from Texas (I got yesterday) and Georgia should get Monday. Both are/were late.
All those discs looked good, maybe I'll put them back on just for my own piece of mind.
What are you gonna do with connecting rod bolts? You cannot just beat out the old ones, and install new ones without possible rod circumference changes..
Rod circumference changes leads to possible rod bearing failure...
How would one go about changing them, I don't trust the old. Would hate to snap another like on the mains.
No,...you would definitely change them out. But you're gonna have to have a machine shop check the big end for distortion after you do it, and resize them if needed. Put a rod on the crank that hasn't been checked, and you can expect that you may be be pulling it apart when half of the bearing is in the pan.
Just ask @hoopty5.0
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