Day 16

I lent out my rotisserie to the guy in the stall next to me cuz he says he needs it to paint his frame for his 69 gto. I say ok but im gonnna need it back by the end of the week. Hw says yeah man no problem. That was almost 3 effing weeks ago. Im kind of pissed that he dirty dicked me like that because all I need to do is sand blast the bottom of the frame and I can bolt the suspension back on it (which I have been dying to do btw). Never again will I lend a tool that is crucial to my build progress.

So now I figure I can at least finish up the only major thing left that I havent completed yet, the motor. So I install the bearings, all the clearances are good except crank end play. I take the caps off and sand the thrust bearing multiple times and finnaly get it good. Then I start to measure ring gap only to find out that they are effing huge. I measured them at .023''. The box they came in says .010" a far cry from what I actually measured. The service manual was closer at .017 but that leaves me with .006'' too big. I call the guy who bored and honed the block and gave me the rings and he says to bring it down. Now I have to load the block in my car with a cherry Picker and drive it up to clairmont only for him to tell me its the best he can do for rings and I can have a refund. He didnt even look at the block. He could have told me that on the phone. what ever. He says they will be ok so we will see.

I plan to try and get the rings installed and the pistons in tomorrow. After that the rest of the motor will go together quite quickly as the head is already assembled.