So last night after installing the pistons, it's now time to get the crankshaft and transmission re installed. Before installing the crankshaft I lubricate all of the main bearings and crank pin bearings with Moly Grease. Lith-Moly Grease from halfords. Basically the same thing as what the service manual says to do. Below the crankshaft is installed and transmission installed into the upper crankcase. One thing to note. Before doing any of this I measured the bearing clearances with Plastigauge just to make sure the crank pin bearing clearances were within spec, and also I measured the main bearing clearances on the upper half and they were also within spec. This gave me the go ahead to start reassembly.
In the below picture you can see lots of Moly-Grease has been applied to the bearings. As the lower half of the engine is going to be sitting in my garage for a while it's best to use grease thats going to stick for a while rather than engine oil that will just run down over time.
So now in the below picture we now have the upper and lower crank cases combined. The gear selector mechanism has been reinstalled in the lower crank case and the gear selector forks have been placed in their proper positions in the transmission. Proper gear selection has been tested and it looks good. The gear selector bar has also been installed. I've applied heat resistant copper gasket to the mating surfaces so that should stop any potential oil leaks...
Another view of the engine internals from the underside with everything reinstalled. Fork selectors on the transmission properly positioned and all bolts have been torqued to spec.
So now the lower main half of the engine has been reassembled, it's time to start thinking about reinstalling the oil sump. If you remember from previous posts the oil sump was soaked in oil sludge combined with the remains from the chewed up crank pin bearing. So now all that has been removed, and the oil sump and oil restrainer has been cleaned...Next thing to do is reinstall the oil sump and seal the mating surfaces.
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