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Basic Engine Building DVD - Chapter 27: Connecting Rods
By now the connecting rods are ready for pistons. We recommen...
Basic Engine Building DVD - Chapter 27: Connecting Rods
By now the connecting rods are ready for pistons. We recommend having the machine shop clean your old pistons for you, if you plan to reuse them. It's not fun at all by hand. Here we show you how they install the rod pins into the connecting rods to connect with the pistons. Then they will measure the pistons to determine the final bore size of the cylinder walls before they are honed.
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If you mean how can you remove the pistons from forced fit connecting rods at home...you really can't without a hydraulic press. If you tried heating the end of the rod with a torch, you would also be heating the wrist pin of the piston and it would expand along with the connecting rod end. You wouldn't be able to remove the pin from the forced fit, even when heated.
This is why we made a machine shop section of the DVD, to show you all the stuff that you will likely need to have a shop do...
Hey do you think i'll be able to press piston pins out of the pistons on a 302 Ford motor with a half-ton arbor press? Or will I need a stronger press?
I remember learning this when I was taking auto class in RCC that someone help to pop the pin out and did this heat thing and pushed pin back in. why pop out be cause he install the rod in the wrong side.
There will be no side to side movement once the piston is installed into the engine. The connecting rod fits to it's journal on the crankshaft and once all pistons and connecting rods are installed, the piston is constrained to it's cylinder bore and the connecting rod and piston pin will only have a few thousandths of an inch lateral movement (rod side clearance)
All of this makes more sense when you see the entire system work together in the complete DVD... It's a lot of moving parts
Just busting your chops Bran... Hope you liked the video, glad you posted. It's nice to know people are paying attention to all the time we spent writing and making these video projects.
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If you tried heating the end of the rod with a torch, you would also be heating the wrist pin of the piston and it would expand along with the connecting rod end. You wouldn't be able to remove the pin from the forced fit, even when heated.
This is why we made a machine shop section of the DVD, to show you all the stuff that you will likely need to have a shop do...
The connecting rod fits to it's journal on the crankshaft and once all pistons and connecting rods are installed, the piston is constrained to it's cylinder bore and the connecting rod and piston pin will only have a few thousandths of an inch lateral movement (rod side clearance)
All of this makes more sense when you see the entire system work together in the complete DVD... It's a lot of moving parts
Hope you liked the video, glad you posted.
It's nice to know people are paying attention to all the time we spent writing and making these video projects.