keep the nut on the e shaft as much as possible. ie take it off remove flywheel, put it back.



you have no idea how much it sucks to pull apart a motor you just built because the threads got damaged, put the nut on and it will protect the threads

i always did that, but only cause im so damn good at losing things...

did we find this out the hard way recently?

I always wrap the threads of the E-shaft with a crapton of electrical tape.

I usually put nuts, bolts back if they can be. If not bag and tag them with threads wrap cloth or something arount them.

nope, this is one of the few things ive never done. mah buddy ralph told me about it when i started building motors

Better advice, once you remove the e-shaft from the motor, place it back into the flywheel and put the nut on, this will protect the e-shaft from rolling around and gettign scratched until you are ready to put the motor back together.

Bingo -- put some e-tape around it. Also, wrap the shaft up in a bunch of shop cloth rags (clean) and get it out of sight in a safe place.



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Get a dedicated "clean table"? https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

If the rebuild is going to take a while (i.e. not immediately after tear-down), we usually wrap the e-shafts with a rag or cloth.

Any serious down-time will cause those damn things to rust like a mofo, so we shoot them down with oil.





-Ted