| Part name: | 1776cc short block - have me repair yours like this one - an idea of what it can cost |
| Part number: | jim1776 |
| Your cost: | $470.27 |
| Description: | This block was purchased by one of my local customers, that 'couldn't afford' one of my engines. Less than 1 minute into the running of the engine in his car, it began to lock up. This is an AE dual circuit block that came to us bound up. It would barely turn over with a wrench on it. I tore it down to expose too much of the wrong assembly lube used by the original builder. It appeared to be white lithium grease. Don't use this stuff for assembly lube. Every last thing needed to be taken apart and cleaned and blown out. After stripping down the crank and hand polishing out the minor scuff on the rear main journal and the main bearing itself, the problem was solved. All the bearings just needed buffing with a terry towel and re-installed. The cam is a stock 4 rivet style that has been ground and labeled as a C35, sitting in single thrust bearings. The lifters were also stock and ground. The crank was 10 over and the block 20 over with 10mm case savers. Some of those were open end style and the rest were closed style and one of them was installed crooked. The stock flywheel was lightened during surfacing I suppose and then it and the crank were 8 doweled. Stock size dowels were used as was a German gland nut & I installed it with an Empi large concave washer @ 260#s red. Stock relief springs were used and a stock plunger is at the flywheel end. I installed a grooved plunger at the pulley end. The rods (according to the builders spec sheet) were supposed to be rebuilt and mate balanced. Outright lie. Maybe rebuilt, but not a trace of balancing was done on them. Came to me with the AA pistons on it but went home with them in a box for the customer to clean & install. Came with the Schadek oil pump body in the block & went home with it in a box for the customer to gasket, gear & install. Came with 3 fly shims (ea of them 12's) and went back together with them and .004 end play. Moral of this story is to use real assembly lube and never attempt firing a new engine unless you know what you're supposed to do first. Cost to the customer as outlined here $470.27 |