[Fot] TR4 build questions

[Dennis Delap]

Marty - I like to make the figure 8 gaskets from sheets of brass with the
thickness that will get protrusion into spec.
D

On Dec 26, 2012, at 6:54 PM, marty sukey <trmarty at hotmail.com> wrote:

> A little advice needed from the TR4 masses. On the engine I am working on
the
> liner protrusion is .008"/.009". Spec calls out .003"/.005".  This is a HP
> street engine. Block and head are freshly surfaced, new sleeves. Head
gasket
> is one of BFE's copper ones. The figure 8 gaskets are .016" steel and could
be
> probably be surface ground down to reach the .003"/.005" spec. Question is,
do
> I need to do this or is the extra protrusion ok?
>
> Second question, After the crank is ground I am thinking I need to remove
the
> cross drilling plugs so that I can clean the internals out sufficiently. It
> looks like this has been attempted sometime in the past as a couple of the
> hex's are stripped out. Should I remove/replace these? I'm thinking they
will
> be challenging based upon some being stripped already.
>
> Thanks,
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