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<blockquote data-quote="PD1744" data-source="post: 1661459" data-attributes="member: 39284"><p>I appreciate all of you guys advice, guidance, and feedback through this. Got to tinker a little bit this past Saturday.</p><p>Yanked the pistons out and took a shot at re-surfacing a block face for the first time. Was pretty therapeutic. Just pulled the dowels, plugged the cylinders, jackets, and passages up, and went to town. I used a decently heavy piece of metal that was wide enough to span the face that I trued up and some sand paper (3 progressive grits) and made <em>several </em>passes. Then vacuumed and shot air through everything. Turned out pretty good:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]316056[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]316057[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Checked the face with a straight edge and feeler gages after and was satisfied.</p><p></p><p>Next was to start fitting the rings and came across my next issue. So I intentionally ordered oversized rings so that I would be forced to grind and fit. Ordered a set of Mahle rings from Summit that was their next size up which is .020" over. Which in my head should have been good to go on the freshly honed cylinders. Well these guys were HUGE. They didn't fit in the bores (without overlapping) and when measured up next to a stock ring was .200" bigger. I would have been grinding for years with this little crappy grinder. The stock rings measure at the top of the spec, but within spec. I'm sending these back and ordering stock size. Might not be much fitting to do, but at least I have the tool now if I need to fine tune them. </p><p></p><p>So that's where we're at. Have done a little work on the truck since my last post, but nothing too exciting. I'll update the build thread (link in sig) shorty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PD1744, post: 1661459, member: 39284"] I appreciate all of you guys advice, guidance, and feedback through this. Got to tinker a little bit this past Saturday. Yanked the pistons out and took a shot at re-surfacing a block face for the first time. Was pretty therapeutic. Just pulled the dowels, plugged the cylinders, jackets, and passages up, and went to town. I used a decently heavy piece of metal that was wide enough to span the face that I trued up and some sand paper (3 progressive grits) and made [I]several [/I]passes. Then vacuumed and shot air through everything. Turned out pretty good: [ATTACH type="full"]316056[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]316057[/ATTACH] Checked the face with a straight edge and feeler gages after and was satisfied. Next was to start fitting the rings and came across my next issue. So I intentionally ordered oversized rings so that I would be forced to grind and fit. Ordered a set of Mahle rings from Summit that was their next size up which is .020" over. Which in my head should have been good to go on the freshly honed cylinders. Well these guys were HUGE. They didn't fit in the bores (without overlapping) and when measured up next to a stock ring was .200" bigger. I would have been grinding for years with this little crappy grinder. The stock rings measure at the top of the spec, but within spec. I'm sending these back and ordering stock size. Might not be much fitting to do, but at least I have the tool now if I need to fine tune them. So that's where we're at. Have done a little work on the truck since my last post, but nothing too exciting. I'll update the build thread (link in sig) shorty. [/QUOTE]
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