The slow updates are killing me!

 

So if your engine in any way assembled? Or is it just a pile of parts?

 

Pile O' Parts, and it just keeps getting bigger lol

 

I know I know, we're all waiting for "REAL" updates. I have a few parts comming, and will have more on the way next week. I may even get this dang block in the shop soon. But untill then I got this crazy looking monster in the mail. It's made by Brownline (I never heard of them) and I only payed $99 shipped w/ the cool "blown plastic" case and all. This 1/2" drive torque wrench is fricken huge at about 22-1/2inch and ranges from 15-150 ft/lbs. I havn't got to really play with it yet but despite the fact it prolly won't do alot of good inside the engine bay I think I can make good use out of it.

Brown Line Metalworks, LLC | Professional Grade Digital Torque Wrench






I'll do a product review on it one day

 

OoOoOoOo... digital. Nice! I am jealous over here with my $30 harbor freight click style torque wrenchs

 

HF is a heavy contender with those torque wrenches no dought. I've wanted a digital one for awhile and the other 2 torque wrenches I have don't range as high, so it's a win win

 

So I got a pretty decent pay check today and couldn't decide which dirrection to spend it, I'm sure this happens to everybody. So I came up with this great idea that I would write down 3 different companies that I wanted to give buisness to on 6 little pieces of paper (I would've spent about the same amount at each place but could only pick one) I also wrote the word "save" on 2 more little pieces of paper. I took the 8 pieces of paper and folded them up nice and tight and tossed them into a hat. Of course you know where this is going, so I had somebody pick a piece of paper out of the hat........needless to say I shouldn't have put "save" as an option. Guess we'll be waiting pretty much till next month to see how well that plan worked

 

Got 2 little packages today, one with the lanyard, and the other with the ES engine mount inserts.


Oh, and I said screw the saving bit and packed up the block parts to go to the shop tomorrow.

 

So I got off work @ 8am yesterday and took the 3 hour trip to the machine shop. He looked over everything and mostly was happy with it all at first glance, exept with the Z6 crank.
I can only blame myself for not cleaning the crank and buying micrometer(which will be next on the list ) to check it for specs before I took it to the shop. The crank just happened to be "dirty" where there had been a spun bearing. He checked it out and basically said that he'll "try" to grind it and it will either make it to specs or it won't. I can't really be mad about it as I've had alot of luck in buying used parts so far *knock on wood*, and if nothing else it will make a great lamp . The down fall to this news is that my EX tranny came from the same source, sooo I guess I'll have to learn how to crack it open and make sure it's in better shape than the crank was .

 

It could have spun a bearing for any reason. Maybe the previous owner didn't like to feed it oil. It's possible the tranny is fine. I would just wait and put it in the car, see how it drives first. It's a pain to take a tranny apart.