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Funny......:frown2::biggrin5:

but you know, since I finished my E-Type rustoration I have done very little to it, and that's been about 20 years now. And yes it still starts, and yes it runs and yes I do drive it, but not as much as I'd like to since my knee went south a few years ago.

 

Today I got the shaft.......make of that what you will.

Sure enough my parts showed up today, but......it seems the bushings in my new forged rocker arms have to be reamed to fit the shaft, I can buy a set of adjustable reamers from Harbor Freight for only about $50 with a coupon, but reading on the machinist's forums tells me they're just not accurate enough.

Or I can wait till Monday and take them down to the engine shop I used and he'll do them precisely, but charge me a bunch of money and of course, it'll be the middle of next week before I get them back - or later.

On top of that I just found the oil slinger that goes in behind the flywheel lying next to the engine......<sighs>

It's gonna be one of those days I think....... :roll:

 

Yeah, now that I think about it I remember reading somewhere that you had to ream the new bushings to fit, problem is I don't know to what spec and I can't find any info on that. I'll talk to the engine guy on Monday and probably just have them do it for me....it's only money, right? :frown2:

In the meantime I'm going to install the new wheel bearings and complete the two axles, then tear down the back of the engine again and put that oil slinger in. What ticks me off is that I looked right at it and put the flywheel in anyway.....it's not like I didn't know what it was! It makes me second guess what I've already done, wondering what else I forgot that might come back to bite me later.


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This morning I took the new rocker arm shaft and forged rockers down to the engine shop - KC Engines - and they used the big Sunnen hone to machine they .005 bigger than the shaft - I could not have gotten that kind of precision with a hand reamer, so it was time well spent.

They charged me $0 since it took him all of 10 min to do it!

Later I took the head back so they could check the spring pressures with the new springs, I took them a box of KK's to thank them for doing the rockers.

I'll get the head back tomorrow sometime - I sent off to MiniSport to find out what the cam specs are and what spring pressure they should have - I was surprised I didn't get any of this info when I got the parts - I expected to need a degree wheel to set the cam timing rather than just align the dots on the cam gears. Because of the time change I won't get an answer from England till tomorrow - if at all.

 

Her major area of expertise is Jaguars.....