Good day all!!!
Well, I got some more cleaning done and a little assembly, as it turns out... I'm still waiting on the valve stem seals and rod bearings, so no pistons can go in, nor can I finish assembling the heads... All parts of the heads are cleaned and ready to assemble...
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This is the alignment for the intake cam... You will have to tweak it's position in the eccentric valvetronic assembly...
And all complete, kinda... Would be complete if I had valve stem seals...
This is what came out of purging the oil squirters... loosened the bolts first, then purged with compressed air...
Crank caps in place... The torque on these, as per the internet, is 20nm (177.02 in/lbs)... this is step one of three... In the event you were unaware, the conversion from nm's to in/lbs, you multiply the nm needed by 8.851...
And part two... tighten the spacer bushing to 6nm or 53.106 in/lbs... (took picture prior to completing step one, obviously)...
Okay, this is where my curiosity got the best of me!! The third step is to tighten the 10 main caps 100 deg... So, I was going to use the two adapters up to my 3/4 inch breaker bar set-up to make the 100 deg easier... Then I figured it would be good to know how tight the extra 100 deg would make the bolts... So, I used my new 1/2 drive torque wrench to get that number... I started at 100... Then 80... then 60... then 70... then 65... then 68... and 69 and 69 and 68... So, somewhere around 68 ft/lbs is the main cap bolt torque...
With that finished, I moved on to assembly of the clean left valvetronic assembly...
Here are the other three cams... The exhaust cams seem like they are made at a different location as they are considerably smoother on the non-machined surfaces... noticeably smoother and generally more detailed...
And the completed assembly... this is the ideal position for the cam so the levers don't jump out of place...
That is it for now...
More to come!! Cheers all for now!!!