Stop in for a cup of coffee

It’s a funny thing when it comes to assembling an engine. There’s so many different accepted approaches. In both internet form and book form. For example, last week there was the discussion about which order to put the pistons in my 440. One book says start at number 1, then go 7,2,8,3,6,5,4; the other book says start at 3, go to 6, 4, 5, 1,8,2,7 and then the 1980s Haynes manual says 3,4,5,6,1,2,7,8 .


Then the same books, have 3 different orders for torquing the mains and setting the thrust bearing, then on top of that, the Haynes book shows the anchor slots being on opposite sides on the rod from each other, but if you do that, the oil holes in the bearings don’t line up.

crazy crazy


We (my brother and I) learned early on our first engine to use the Service Manual for your main source of information...

The guy at the parts store told us the wrong way to install the bearings and we installed them backwards... Killed our crank in our 340 ... We had to buy a new crank kit (crank & bearings) for it...

We then used the service manual for reference.... Who else knows how to build them better than the company that designed and built them???? Trust their info...