Dropping in the Crank!! Chevy 305 V8 SBC Rebuild Part 1 1963 Chevy C10 Restoration Day 25

hey guys welcome back to the channel i'm chris this is restoration rescue welcome back to another saturday and in today's video we're going to be building this chevy 305 small block [Music] all right guys so we just picked up the engine last week from the machine shop so we're going to talk a little bit about what he did and what we got from the machine shop so we can see right here that they did a little bit of a board job because our pistons uh the piston board was a little out of round on a couple of them they were very close to clearances so he recommended a 30 over boar so that's what we did he also hot tanked it and it looks beautiful he put the cam shaft bearings in okay as you can see right here which is a huge pain and a huge relief that he took care of that but what we're going to come over here is that he polished our crankshaft which looks absolutely amazing he did some stuff with our heads made our valve sit a lot better we also have a brand new camshaft as you can see we also picked up because we did the 30 overboard we got some brand new pistons which look amazing he also put the wrist pins in and pressed them in because they are a big process that is a little over my head so then also what came in this whole kit is we got piston rings lifters bearings timing and all of our gaskets for the whole thing and we got some assembly lube so what we're gonna do now is we're gonna hop over this engine we're gonna flip it over and we're gonna start getting ready for the crankshaft all right guys so what we're gonna do now is you can see that all the caps are on it they're all in a specific spot so what we're gonna do is we're gonna take those off then we're gonna come over here and grab our bearings and then we're going to seat our bearings and then what we're going to do is we're going to set the crank in we're going to torque it all down we're going to use a little bit of plastic gauge to see what our clearances are to make sure that this engine is round and good to go so that we can start building a nice healthy engine so let's go ahead and knock that out [Music] so [Music] all right guys so that is all our bearings and our rear main seal we're going to talk about the rear main seal real quick before we talk about the bearings so as you can see it's not all the way up to the lip here and while we were doing research and talking to some people um who are in the engine building community this is a good spot to put it because there's less area for it to leak so we're going to put some lube there or some silicone gasket maker and seal this up so now we're going to go back here and we're going to talk about these bearings so as you can see we're going to look right here on this one right here you can see that there's a little cut out and in each bearing there's a cutout and on the top cap there'll be one matching and then you put it together so we have to have all those lined up because that's where all the that's how they line up and hold tight you want to make sure that they are flush the bearings in each place okay so now what we're going to do is we're going to pick up our crank and we're going to place it in our engine then what we're going to do is we're going to come over here we're going to grab some plastic gauge because we want to make sure our gaps for our clearances are perfect for this engine so they work out amazing so we're going to put it down we're going to put a little bit of plastic gauge on each bearing where that is then we're going to torque it all down we're gonna check our clearances and then we're gonna re-torque it down and we'll be done with the crankshaft [Music] all right guys so what we're going to do now is we are going to torque these down okay so the way you do it on an engine like this is you do these in stages so these three are about 70 pound feet of torque the outside is 65. you don't want to go out and blast them all at 65 right away so what we do is we start on the centers and the outsides at a specific torque so what we're going to do is on the centers we're going to do 30 then we're going to come to the outers and do 25 then we're going to come back we're going to do it again but 50s on the center is 45 on the size and then the last pass 70 and then 65 on the outside so let's go ahead and let's torque this thing down [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] all right guys so we left off with us torquing this thing ready down to spec on the first pass so that's exactly what we did then we take the breaker bar we tear it all down again we pull out our crankshaft put it to the side and then we look at the caps and in the caps is where that plastic gauge is going to sit and the plastic age what we're going to do is you can kind of see how you're supposed to measure it right there if you can can you see that okay so you can see that you use it and you measure it and we put it in like that and measure our clearances but obviously it would be more on this but under the cap so we made sure ours was good to go so then after that what we do is we come out we take the crankshaft out we go all to our bearings and we put the uh the assembly lube and the reason we use assembly lube on our engines is when you start it up it's gonna be completely dry with the assembly lube this is gonna give some lubrication so there's not metal on metal contact when the oil comes in this will get pretty much dissipated it'll eliminates dry starts that's the main thing that we want to do because it's going to make our engine last longer and that's it so when we're done with that we bring the engine we bring the crank right back to the engine and we again torqued it all down to spec and just to make sure that we explained this correctly is that you do it in stages so when we torque everything down in stages we started with 30 50 70 on the three middle caps and 25 30 uh 45 65 on the end because 65 on these two and 70 on this one so just make sure when we put your engine back together or when we're putting our engine back together and you guys are putting your engines back together make sure each cap stays in the correct spot you can see on ours we have little dimples that the machine shop was nice enough to put in so we know exactly where our stuff goes but guys that's going to be a wrap for today's video thank you for joining us on another saturday we can't wait to see you again next week make sure you comment like and subscribe because we'll be knocking out the pistons

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Length: 9min 14sec (554 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 05 2022