1969 Dart Street/Strip (Re)Build

Those gauges are the ****! Sweet!

Yeah I'm liking them so far. Didn't you buy a set yourself???

Thought I was going to get my motor back this week. NOPE! Of course there was another snag. Builder was checking bearing clearances and the outer bearing clearances were perfect. The 3 center bearings were tight and he just couldn't get the proper clearance it needed. He ordered another set of bearings to see if another batch might do the trick. That didn't work either. So he wondered how the heck they made it work with the old bearings. He put the old bearings in and found only .0008" clearance! He said he could tell the way the bearings looked that the engine didn't like it either. So it was probably a good thing that we tore this engine down because those bearings would probably have been toast before long. So he got to measuring the block and the 3 center journals were under the minimum allowed tolerance. How the ends can be perfect and the 3 center be under sized is beyond me if a proper line bore was done (which obviously wasn't). So whoever did the machining and assembling of this engine before I got it didn't check the tolerances at all. So now the block has to be disassembled and brought back to Wichita to line hone those 3 journals to the required tolerance. The PO did us absolutely no favors.