Well I have not been posting much since I have been putting an engine in my 911. I sold it to a friend of mine and part of the deal was that I would put the engine of his choice in. So he bought a rebuilt 3.0 from another friend of mine and I am thinking sweet 1 day job and I am done...
Well the first 1 day job I get it all put back together go to hit the key and clunk starter engages and the engine wont turn ERR??? so I break out the multi meter and measure the battery, then measure the battery under load, then measure the voltage at the starter and again under load there... WTF I know that Dan has built a lot of engines or I would not have recommended the engine from him so I proceed to try to turn the engine over at the crank ... no freakin way seems like the engine is siezed!!!
Fast forward to this weekend I pull the engine then get the trans off... pull the clutch and pressure plate... cha ching the engine will turn... I used the wrong bolts to the pressure plate... these were actually a set of cv bolts that are the same size etc but about 15 mm longer than flywheel bolts. they torqued down fine but stick out far enough to hit a rib on the back of the case...
So this now goes down as one of my biggest screw ups. I bolted it back together with the right bolts and viola running SC. I figured some of you might get a laugh out of that.
i call that a brilliant move in that you didn't break out the 2 foot breaker bar and force it to turn over.
those, and the shallow flywheel bolts are some of the specialty bolts which i prefer to not talk about at public level......
good work.
roger
You are not alone, I too have had the pleasure of "seizing" an engine with the wrong pressure plate bolts. DOH!
I am glad to hear that I am not alone
Well at least now it is running... I have to finish fabing up the computer mount (went from 78 engine to 82 so it has a lambda computer) and I will be done and can get to work on my 72 914.
I wouldn't call that stupid, everyone screws up. The difference between a good mechanic and a bad one is how he handles his mistakes. You handled it well without compounding the error with bad decision making. I've tried it both ways, I like your way better.
About 3 weeks ago we took my engine and transmission out to put in new seals. We found about 18 inches of 5/8 fuel hose in the fan impeller.
My guess is when the PO upgraded to carbs, they replaced the fuel pump and ran new lines. They left the left-over line on top of the engine and it fell down and got sucked in.
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