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Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton
David
couple of questions---
In your pics it looks like there is a lot of main stud threads sticking up ---is the stud too long to properly tighten the main caps???
Also---was the one bolt NOT in the rod????? The way the cap is distorter and the other bolt broken it appears that one bolt was loose and came out---your crank and bearing and rod are not blue as if you had a bearing problem--
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Jerry;
In some of the pictures I've already removed the stud girdle, so you will see a lot of main stud sticking out.... otherwise once torqued down, abut the length of the nut was what was sticking out above the nut....
The crank/rods are not blue at all, in fact, I think the crank is o-k, but gonna have a shop check it out,all the other bearings look normal, at the time,my
oil pressure was 50psi and
oil temp was 170 degrees as was water temp.When things were letting go, I looked down at the
oil pressure gauge first as I was reaching for the igintion switch, and it was on 50 psi, also I have a oil pressure warning light set at 20 psi and it never came on, so, oil pressure was fine....... I'll keep the crank for a "street motor"... I'm afraid it took some "hits" from the rod and may be stressed and I wouldn't trust it in a race motor, but for a mild street engine, I think it'll be just fine.....
Yes, one rod bolt was broken and the other one was in the pan as you see it, bent up and knicked in numerous places....It's any bodies guess as to what happened and how???? The "good" rod bolt could have backed out, then the other one break or the other way around, don't know how one would be able to tell the sequence.....
I know I torqued them down to the manufacters specs as you will see a dab of r
ed paint on the bolts and nuts... I do that after torquing anything and everything down, it's red finger nail paint from my daughters make-up kit and it lets me know that that bolt or nut has been torqued to specs............
here's a picture with the stud girdle on and one without,showing the stud length.....once the girdle is on the studs,the top of it is well into the threads and then there's the washer under the nut, so the nut is not close to bottoming out...These studs are a little longer than normal cause they were made to add a windage tray, which is darn near impossible with a stud girdle......
David
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