Assembled My Block This Weekend.
03-13-2003, 01:27 PM
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Ok I have never assembled an engine and I am doing mine this Saturday. What things do I really need to watch out for. Are there any tricks that I should know that the Workshop manual doesnt cover. After It's assembled how can I do a compression test before I install the engine. Or do I just need to knock on wood and still it back together? For those who dont know its a 13b-rew but I belive the Fc and Fd blocks are the same right?
03-13-2003, 03:22 PM
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ok take your clean rotors and fit all the seals to each groove in the rotor. the side seals come a tad long, so you need to sand em to length, so you fit all the seals to each groove, then you can assemble the engine. the seal clearancing takes awhile, its not really something you can do while you are actually putting the case together. another thing is to put a little motor oil on all the sealing surfaces, the rotor housings really soak it up
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03-14-2003, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by j9fd3s' date='Mar 13 2003, 01:22 PM
ok take your clean rotors and fit all the seals to each groove in the rotor. the side seals come a tad long, so you need to sand em to length, so you fit all the seals to each groove, then you can assemble the engine. the seal clearancing takes awhile, its not really something you can do while you are actually putting the case together. another thing is to put a little motor oil on all the sealing surfaces, the rotor housings really soak it up
mike
mike
