Re: [Amc-list] Off with it's head!

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Two I can think of quick.
Rolling a main bearing shell out by stuffing a good quality cotter pin in the oil hole in the crank and turning the crank. Of ocurse turn the crank so the main comes out away from the key!
Driving a rope rear main seal out with welding rod for a stick welder with the flux coat removed on a wire wheel.
Note; don't try the main shell withe a soft piece of crap cotter pin! Must be a solid quality pin! or you'l just shear the head off the pin!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
> Tom Jennings wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> >> Just the rod bearings. It would be way unusual if it is a main. I was just 
> figuring on replacing rod bearings with new, but if there is no visible 
> problems, not much point in it. I don't know what I was thinking!
> > 
> > Yeah, I wasn't planning on touching the mains! If the rod crank
> > journals are toast (say) then this sort of in-car teardown is
> > not longer appropriate.
> 
> I don't know about that. I have a service manual that cover both pre and 
> post war cars (the war being WWI) and it has nifty tips on things like 
> making a piston ring compressor from a tin can and pouring new bearings 
> (the section on wooden wheel care is a real page turner!). There's a lot 
> you can do without yanking the motor if so motivated.
> 
> Matt
> -- 
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> 1968 Rambler American sedan
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