Rod bearings: Complete!

[boat]

Jayro was kind enough to open his garage and share his time and talents to help me get the rod bearings done on my SHO. We also got exhaust studs to ypipe changed. Between the two of those things, my SHO, runs SO much smoother. :woo-hoo: Seems to run like a new car, so much quieter now.
Probably more the y-pipe being able to completely seal as it should. Had one front stud broke off, and some crappy rusty hardware holding it up.

Here are some pics of the dirty oil pan soaking in Easy Off (my new best friend)

Now, the clean pan...

The rod bearings below are in order 1-6 left to right, top came off the top of the rod, the bottom came off the rod caps. None of them except for #6 really showed any deep wear. Plastigauge showed about .0015 on journals #2 and #5. Not too bad for 160k miles on this motor. Just at the right time, too.

Thanks again goes to Jayro and Bubba's help, it was huge, made the job a lot easier. :thankyou:

Oh, and Jayro's wife makes some killer chicken salad :thankyou:

 

[sho'noffmtx]

wow, im going to have pick up some of that degreaser!

looking good, another sho lives on, for many miles more.

 

[Ishodu]

Good work, hopefully that engine will see another 160k

 

[JRA2000TL]

I've got a set in my trunk that need to go in mine. How difficult was it? I've read the SHOPhoenixproject site on that topic about a dozen times. Since I don't have the stock Y pipe (more like a fabbed Y pipe by an exhaust shop), it doesn't look as bad; but I will still need to remove 2 studs to get it loose. I don't know how to plastigauge anything. It came with a paper ruler measuring looking thing. I just bought standard size to go in mine.

 

[boat]

I changed #4 and #6 bearings, Jayro did the rest. They are not hard at all. Just follow the directions on SHOPhoenix. They are not too bad to do. The plastigauge is not bad to use either, take a small piece of it put it across the rod-bearing. Take your new bearing, put assembly **** on it, then carefully put the plastigauge on the bottom rod bearing, put both bearings in as if you were doing final assembly and torque it down as specified. Take it apart again. Use the paper ruler, and it should be between .0009 -.0022. Use the inches side. In the paper ruler measuring thing you say, has the plastigauge in it.

Just read up on it, I am sure there are things I might be missing.

I've got a set in my trunk that need to go in mine. How difficult was it? I've read the SHOPhoenixproject site on that topic about a dozen times. Since I don't have the stock Y pipe (more like a fabbed Y pipe by an exhaust shop), it doesn't look as bad; but I will still need to remove 2 studs to get it loose. I don't know how to plastigauge anything. It came with a paper ruler measuring looking thing. I just bought standard size to go in mine.