Well,, as some know and remember My wife of 51 years passed late last year and I have been so dang busy with so many things to take care of both within our immediate family AND my wife's family as her mother also passed late last year and THAT has become a knock down dragout because of property issues as to who gets what. I'm so dang sick of people that do not care a whit about family just trying to get all they can before everybody else,,,,, Anybody else got family like that,,,??
I have finally got around to get back to the overhaul on the TO20 engine and got the pistons with new rings and bearings installed,,,sort of. I'm kinda concerned as after installing #3 piston and torquing the rod cap,,the engine got real hard to turn but would turn with a 18" pry bar on flywheel studs,,,,? I unbolted the #3 rod cap, cleaned the lubriplate off both bearing halves, put some plastigage on the bearings, torqued it up again and got .002 clearance which is within recommendations. I HAD checked piston ring end gaps in all 4 cylinders after honing all the cylinder liners,,SO,,what could be causing engine to be hard to turn?? I did notice that it seemed to take more effort than usual to "tap" the pistons down into the cylinders till it bottomed on crank rod journals,,,,so,,,it almost HAS to be the drag of the rings on the liners ,,,??
SO,,I decided to install the flywheel to use starter to see if it would turn engine before I go any farther. BUT,,you guessed it the friggin pilot bearing is froze up in flywheel!! ASAP does NOT list a PN for a new pilot bearing,,so does anyone know what that bearing number is to see if Oreillys has one?
AND,,one more,,,does the pilot bearing come out of flywheel to either direction??
SORRY for the long winded post,,,I'll try to do better next tine,,,,,
I have finally got around to get back to the overhaul on the TO20 engine and got the pistons with new rings and bearings installed,,,sort of. I'm kinda concerned as after installing #3 piston and torquing the rod cap,,the engine got real hard to turn but would turn with a 18" pry bar on flywheel studs,,,,? I unbolted the #3 rod cap, cleaned the lubriplate off both bearing halves, put some plastigage on the bearings, torqued it up again and got .002 clearance which is within recommendations. I HAD checked piston ring end gaps in all 4 cylinders after honing all the cylinder liners,,SO,,what could be causing engine to be hard to turn?? I did notice that it seemed to take more effort than usual to "tap" the pistons down into the cylinders till it bottomed on crank rod journals,,,,so,,,it almost HAS to be the drag of the rings on the liners ,,,??
SO,,I decided to install the flywheel to use starter to see if it would turn engine before I go any farther. BUT,,you guessed it the friggin pilot bearing is froze up in flywheel!! ASAP does NOT list a PN for a new pilot bearing,,so does anyone know what that bearing number is to see if Oreillys has one?
AND,,one more,,,does the pilot bearing come out of flywheel to either direction??
SORRY for the long winded post,,,I'll try to do better next tine,,,,,