Eagle rod help, engine assemblers inside
Eagle rod help, engine assemblers inside Hi,
I put the motor today and i had called eagle and they gave me a torque spec on the rod studsof 63ftlbs.
Any one ever used the eagle rods? there I beams with studs in them, i hvae it all together and it doesnt want to spin, so im thinking that the rod torqe is too high, what do you all think
I obviously dont want these to come out, so i was wondering if anyone else had done this and if they knew their torque specs?
thanks
ed
firebird455@gmail.com
I put the motor today and i had called eagle and they gave me a torque spec on the rod studsof 63ftlbs.
Any one ever used the eagle rods? there I beams with studs in them, i hvae it all together and it doesnt want to spin, so im thinking that the rod torqe is too high, what do you all think
I obviously dont want these to come out, so i was wondering if anyone else had done this and if they knew their torque specs?
thanks
ed
firebird455@gmail.com
That rod torque sounds right. If you loosen the main caps will the engine turn? The rods should have a slight amount of side play front to back, around .015-.020. Should be able to grab 2 rods like a sandwich and wiggle them front to back. Are you sure the main caps are on right, position 1-5 in there place and the numbers on the side of the caps are all on the same side except 5 is oposing the others.
Kurt
Kurt
yeah, the main caps are are in, i had the motor assembled originally by a shop, i went from high to low comp, and didnt touch the crank or mains.
If your talking about the rod caps, then i am pretty sure there all right, but I am going to go and redo it all to make sure. Im gonna put the rest of the pistons in and check the caps and make sure everything is correct.
thanks for the help kurt, i cant imagine what could be the issue, i just dont want to strip out the crank bolt sa then im really screwded
If your talking about the rod caps, then i am pretty sure there all right, but I am going to go and redo it all to make sure. Im gonna put the rest of the pistons in and check the caps and make sure everything is correct.
thanks for the help kurt, i cant imagine what could be the issue, i just dont want to strip out the crank bolt sa then im really screwded
The machine shop put the pistos on the rods, so Im assumin that it was done right, its not hitting on anything, i need to go out there and look again
thanks again guys
ed
thanks again guys
ed
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man again its a stock crank, i dont get why it is doing this
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Machine shops screw up all the time. I actually put some of my pistons on the rods backwards on mine as I was doing it. I didn't pay any attention to the F on the top of the piston that was supposed to put going to the front so when I put the pisons in the F was going the wrong way. LOL
The rods have to sit on the journel correctley like stated above. the slanted part of the cap and rod have to match the outside of the journel. If even one of the rods doesn't do this it will lock up. In other words the pistons are probably on the rods right but you have one of them turned around backwards or the rod is not pointing the right direction and that case if the pistons is pointed in the right direction then the piston is on the rod backwards. Just look at it really hard.
The rods have to sit on the journel correctley like stated above. the slanted part of the cap and rod have to match the outside of the journel. If even one of the rods doesn't do this it will lock up. In other words the pistons are probably on the rods right but you have one of them turned around backwards or the rod is not pointing the right direction and that case if the pistons is pointed in the right direction then the piston is on the rod backwards. Just look at it really hard.
well I think that I have figured it out, the rods have a casting on one side of them and not on the other, i took it apart today and when i face the cast towards the back its fine, so I am assuming that the casting onthe pass side goes towards the back, would that mean the drivers sdie would face forward??
anyway the machine shop has 7 pistons with casting forward, and 1 back, so they either did 1 wrong or 3 wrong
any ideas off of that
thanks
ed
anyway the machine shop has 7 pistons with casting forward, and 1 back, so they either did 1 wrong or 3 wrong
any ideas off of that
thanks
ed
