Sunday 13 May 2012

Cylinder Block and Reassembely

The Cylinder Block is the base of the engine, and the cylinder head sits on top of it. It contains parts such as the Pistons, Flywheel and the Crankshaft.
The cylinder block holds the pistons and the crankshaft which work together with the valves in the cylinder head to power the engine.


Theory Background:
What I'm doing is reassembling the cylinder block completely.
How to reassemble the cylinder block:
1st:
The crankshaft needs to be placed back into the cylinder block.


After it has been put back in correctly, it needs to be fastened down with crankshaft bearing caps.



2nd:
The Flywheel needs to be bolted back on so the crankshaft can be turned over.



3rd:
You should make sure that the piston chambers are all clean and ready for the pistons to be put back in.


4th:
After you have made sure that the piston chambers are clean, it's time to put the pistons back into the chambers. To do this you must find which piston goes in which chamber. After that, the pistons are ready to go back in. To put them back in, a piston ring compressor should be used so that the piston rings don't pop out and break. 

This is what a Piston Ring Compressor looks like.

5th:
Next, you have to put the con rod caps back onto the con rod. 

This shows the Con Rod and the Con Rod cap.

This is how it should look while on the crankshaft.

6th:
After the caps are placed onto the con rod, they need to be torque to a specific specification. You can find this in the engines' manual.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Gareth
    How much of this is your own work, it's a good recourse I am looking for more than cut and paste post.
    Hans

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  2. Hey Hans,
    this is all my own work but I didn't take any pictures during the reassembly process so I had to get some pics off Google.

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  3. Hi Gareth
    I like the numbering Sequence and I have seen you Striping and assembling an Engine.
    The Measuring is also documented.
    Hans

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