How to rebuild an engine
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Step-by-step. Everything you need to do to your engine prior to assessing it for machine work. | Step-by-step. Everything you need to do to your engine prior to assessing it for machine work. | ||
Before you start taking things off of your engine there are a few items you want to have on hand so you can start and finish with few stops and starts. | Before you start taking things off of your engine there are a few items you want to have on hand so you can start and finish with few stops and starts. | ||
| − | You will need a 4-wheel engine stand. | + | You will need a 4-wheel engine stand (3-wheel engine stands have a wicked tendancy to tip easily). Using a 4- wheel engine stand is the safest and fastest way to dis-assemble an engine. |
You will need baggies to put all of your nuts and bolts into so you do not loose any of them. Make sure to label the baggies. Some like to use a metal coffee can with some 1/8th inch holes poked in the bottom and sides, to clean parts with prior to putting them in the baggies. This will allow you to rinse the dirt and grime off all the fasteners very fast and you do not have to worry about any of them falling out into the solvent bath. A can of WD-40 or something like it to be used on the rusted fasteners. It is a good idea to have a bunch of clean rags. Some of these engines can be DIRTY and if you keep your tools clean as you go, you will not waste time washing your hands. I would also like to take a few pictures of the engine from all angles. Then when you are putting things back together you have a reference photo to figure out just where that bracket goes. | You will need baggies to put all of your nuts and bolts into so you do not loose any of them. Make sure to label the baggies. Some like to use a metal coffee can with some 1/8th inch holes poked in the bottom and sides, to clean parts with prior to putting them in the baggies. This will allow you to rinse the dirt and grime off all the fasteners very fast and you do not have to worry about any of them falling out into the solvent bath. A can of WD-40 or something like it to be used on the rusted fasteners. It is a good idea to have a bunch of clean rags. Some of these engines can be DIRTY and if you keep your tools clean as you go, you will not waste time washing your hands. I would also like to take a few pictures of the engine from all angles. Then when you are putting things back together you have a reference photo to figure out just where that bracket goes. | ||
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