You are very welcome !
I don't know how you are going to make it thru the work day with all the excitement from last
night. I bet your itching to get home!
So what do you think started this problem and do your pulleys still line-up with the 1/8 inch
spacer installed ?
Yea it is going to be a hard day to get through!
The problem started with the new balancer and blower pulley being about 1/2" out of location from the old set-up. Coty and I seem to think it was always like that on the old motor, but we just missed it somehow.
My fix was to take measurements and turn back the faces of the two pulleys to make everything line up. What I think happend was that when I installed the new balancer onto the new crank... I did not have it seated all the way against the gear in the first place. We think maybe the key
was to tight and causing the balancer to feel like it had seated. I do not like to force things.
Well I pulled measurements and turned the faces on the lathe to the measurements it was showing at that position.
In escents I removed too much off the back of the balancer hub.
Then when it went back together on the stand, it stopped in the same location (which was about .080 short) and I did not know it was. When I torqued it down to 60lbs it showed I had .025 clearance between the cover and the balancer. I then installed the rockers and adjusted them to pre load. Eveything was still good and rotated normal.
Now, it was at this point I re-adjusted the motor on the stand cause when I put the blower housing on... it was out of balance as far as rotating the block (not the crank) on the stand.
A couple days later... For some reason, I went back and wanted to re-check the preload on the rockers...This would have been the first time rotating the crank since I re-positioned the block on the stand. As I started to spin the crank I was rotating it backward on the stand the bolt came loose abit.
I turned it back forward to tighten it but it took a full turn or so to actually get tight. This is where I noticed the flange on the crank was hitting a bolt head on the stand itself and causing the motor to not spin.. I re-adjusted the arms on the stand to so the crank flange would clear. I then seen the crank was clear and really only had to spin it about 10 degrees to bring number 6 cylinder to the top to re-check the rest of the rockers.
I never turned the motor again until it was in the truck and had all the belts on and had one bolt in the converter. I neede to spin the motor then so I could have access to the next converter bolt.
It was at this point when I tried to turn the motor over using the center bolt on the balancer...the bolt tightened up a bit more and the motor only moved about 3 degrees.
What I think happend was when back on the stand when the stand bolt stopped the crank from spinning, It held the crank enough to actually
allow the balancer to be pushed on fully while I thought it was just the bolt re-tightening. I had no reason to think that the balancer would have moved cause it torqued to 60lbs before and showed good! Did not give it a second thought, until it would not spin in the truck...
The damage to the cover in the above pics took place with only 1 turn on the crank !
That is the only logical thing that I think could have happened.
Yes I had to add a spacer to the water pump , power steering pump bracket. and alternater to bring it back in alignment.bracket