Re: Using Plastic Gauge

Posted by Bill Smith on December 31, 2002 at 12:26:39 from (63.147.130.95):

In Reply to: Using Plastic Gauge posted by Brian on December 31, 2002 at 11:56:31:

You only use a peice one time. I never did put a peice clear around the bearing. Is what I did is this. Without oiling or prelubing bearing, put dry bearing in dry bearing caps. Place a piece of plasti guage (instead of going around, go the other way) front to back on the crank or bearing. Just one peice and you have to put it on in the matter that it doesn't get smashed by weight of parts (gravity) in the assembling process. Placing a piece of plasti guage and then putting entire weight of crank on top of it won't be accurate in other words. Do crank shaft main bearings only, and first. Assemble and use torque specs. Then disassemble and compare the plastiguage to chart. If it is proper clearance then prelube bearings and reassemble. Remove plasti guage and the bearings have to stay in the same cap as tested in. Then you can do rod bearings in the same nature one at a time. With engine out and upside down, I do all mains at the same time. If in tractor I torque all main caps to spec and then do the plasti guage check one bearing at a time with the other caps torqued during the entire process.

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