cully's XU10J4RS

[cully]

remember Biancas old engine the one the timing pulley cracked?

Ive been slowly gathering bits to rebuild it as another good spare engine ready to go

I bought Rocker Tom's old engine the one he killed at combe hoping there were some goodies i could save
but out of the whole engine he did a good job on it
head casting was scrap, block was scrap i managed to save the valves x16 and crank!

8 of the inlets and the crank i have put into this build

first off to build was the head
strip right back clean, check,true head,grind valves,new valve guide seals, pick out the best of the 32 hydraulic followers nd springs refit

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next up was to chose which crank to use out of the two i have
to do this i bought a set of new std main and bigend bearings,
with these i used Plastigauge measuring tool to determine which crank journals were in the best condition,
to my suprise both cranks measured the same, both well within the bearing tolerances for the std shells on both mains and bigends.

so visualy i chose toms crank

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with the plastigauge you cut a small section then clamp it with the bearing, the bearing will squish the waxy section giving you a width to measure
you take the measurement and refer to the bearing manufacturers tolerance if your in the tolerance all is good

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my choices were made on the crank now do i go race bearings.......
yup i bought
King race bigend bearings
Malhe main bearings
Coetze C20LET rings

just be warned the pictures jump back and forward in time

block,crank,rods were all cleaned ready for assembly
which i have been doing over this week

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as of this evening im at a stage where im ready to fit the sump!