RE: First Start

[Brian Sanborn <sanborn@net1plus.com>]

Justin,

Lots of good replies.  All I can add is some thoughts.

Is the car in neutral?

When you were assembling the engine... and torqued down the bearing caps... 
all slobbered with assembly lube... the crankshaft should have turned like 
smooth silk.  Even with the pistons and liners in... you should have been able 
to turn the whole assembly by hand.

Further in the assembly process the engine was constantly being turned by hand 
on the stand to line up the timing or assemble the the valve train. If this is 
not true something is very amiss.

The only gotcha I ran into was when I tried to replace the large steel 
camshaft bearing with on from Moss ans it locked the engine up tight when the 
bearing was tighen down because the new part did not have a 45 degree bevel on 
the rear edge and was interfering with the cam.  I went back to the original 
part.

Brian Sanborn
62 TR4  CT16260L soon to be "O" - Groton, MA

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