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Moss EFI kit and O/D tranny up-date thus far...
Update on my Tranny & EFI upgrade,
Discovered a few stumbling blocks & interesting surprises thus far. Oh nothing too serious just a little more work than expected. Guess I've gone this far may as well take care of this stuff now while it's all apart. I mean why in the world would I want to take any short cuts at this point.
Anyway here’s the short list issues that weren't expected:
1) Engine & tranny mounts shot – on order.
2) U-joints not too bad but kind of loose – on order.
3) Diff's Thrust washers also bad (according to my friend) – on order.
4) Flywheel is in good shape but needs to be turned & cleaned up before putting it all back together. I decided against the aluminum flywheel for now.
5) Slave unit is old & worn out - but we're going to rebuild the one I got with the O/D unit. Only unknown is the master - but we'll know soon enough.
Other interesting stuff.
Discovered that my engine has been tweaked ever so slightly. Doing a compression check we read about ~170psi on each piston. I was happy but my partner seemed to think that was a weirdly high number. Looking at the head more closely it’s easy to see it’s been off and “decked” using a scope we where even more amazed to discover that it’s running “flat top” pistons (9.0:1 we think?) rather than the stock dished (8.5:1) pistons.
All the other stuff checked out fine but because of the higher compression ratio due to the decked head & flat pistons – I don’t think I’ll be needing my assembled Aluminum head that I got off of ebay for a song anytime soon. Likewise I’m also concerned about the set of roller rockers I picked up too. Because with the flat pistons & decked head I might run the risk of having the pistons & the valves make contact with one another. Whatever I do I think I’d have to pop the head to check clearances before I do the roller rockers.
Update on my Tranny & EFI upgrade,
Discovered a few stumbling blocks & interesting surprises thus far. Oh nothing too serious just a little more work than expected. Guess I've gone this far may as well take care of this stuff now while it's all apart. I mean why in the world would I want to take any short cuts at this point.
Anyway here’s the short list issues that weren't expected:
1) Engine & tranny mounts shot – on order.
2) U-joints not too bad but kind of loose – on order.
3) Diff's Thrust washers also bad (according to my friend) – on order.
4) Flywheel is in good shape but needs to be turned & cleaned up before putting it all back together. I decided against the aluminum flywheel for now.
5) Slave unit is old & worn out - but we're going to rebuild the one I got with the O/D unit. Only unknown is the master - but we'll know soon enough.
Other interesting stuff.
Discovered that my engine has been tweaked ever so slightly. Doing a compression check we read about ~170psi on each piston. I was happy but my partner seemed to think that was a weirdly high number. Looking at the head more closely it’s easy to see it’s been off and “decked” using a scope we where even more amazed to discover that it’s running “flat top” pistons (9.0:1 we think?) rather than the stock dished (8.5:1) pistons.
All the other stuff checked out fine but because of the higher compression ratio due to the decked head & flat pistons – I don’t think I’ll be needing my assembled Aluminum head that I got off of ebay for a song anytime soon. Likewise I’m also concerned about the set of roller rockers I picked up too. Because with the flat pistons & decked head I might run the risk of having the pistons & the valves make contact with one another. Whatever I do I think I’d have to pop the head to check clearances before I do the roller rockers.
