Great stuff Chris, wish you were closer to here. Never met a Ford Tech like you.

 

gotta love the pics of the girls on your tool box :santa:

 

Awsome job, it's great that you take the time to show and explain stuff like that, especially for people like my self that are trying to learn as much as possible.

 

Good info mang!!! Look foward to more assembaly

 

two girls from SEMA and Angelina Jolie

 

I LOVE HER YOU KNOW Angelina Jolie that is,
Got posters of her upstairs in my sons room

I figure it this way, if she has sex with her own Brother,
THEN I STAND A CHANCE

 

Rob, you need to get help badly.

 

I saved this link. Waiting for the rest.

 

You sir, have taste

 

 

OK everyone, enough drooling.

back to building a Lightning motor!

I finished filing all of the rings so we are ready to assemble and install the rods/pistons!

start out with a whole bunch of parts. pistons ,pins, rods, spirolocks, compression and oil rings.

 

remove your rod caps and make sure that the machined surfaces and the back of the rod bearing halves are free of any dirt and oil.


now insert your bearings into their new homes on each rod and end cap. make sure the tabs are aligned on each bearing!



jumping to the other end of the rod (sortof) meet your next challenge! SPIROLOCKS! they are going to handle the task of holding your wrist pin and piston onto the small end of your connecting rod. these things could make the pope say bad words. actually they are not that bad. after you do the first few sets, it gets easier. this may be due to the fact that your fingertips are bleeding from working with them thus providing a little extra lubrication? j/k

 

I found it easiest to "stretch" them out a little bit. slinky style and then sort of screw or thread them into their grooves in the piston.


you install TWO of them on each end of the wrist pin. I choose to install them into one side of the piston BEFORE installing the pin and rod like this:


make sure they are fully seated in their grooves and then you can insert the rod and pin through the other side .
(note: this picture was taken earlier and the spirolocks are not yet installed):

 

This is an excellent post man. I'm sure I speak for many in saying "we" really appreciate your contributions to this forum.

 

(svtdvm: thanks!)

now hold the rod in the center of the piston and then slide the wrist pin through the un spirolocked side of the piston, through the small end of the rod, and then into the s'locked side.


you can now install two spirolocks into the opposite side of the piston.


now do the same prodedure 7 more times and you've got these: