How to Build a Ford 302 Small Block - Part 5: Timing Set, Cover, Water Pump, Crankshaft Damper

hey everyone welcome to two car pros my name is ryan and today we'll be continuing our how to build a ford 302 windsor or in our case a 347 stroker this is part number five where we will be putting on the timing set the timing cover the water pump and the crankshaft damper basically getting the front of the engine nice and built for us it's a pretty fun experience because there's a lot going on it looks more like an engine at this point which is always exciting so this is definitely a part of the video you really want to pay attention to especially when you are installing your damper there's a lot of horses there that could go wrong you can pull threads out of the cranks now you could hurt yourself you could ruin tools there's a bunch of different things if you don't do it correctly can go awry so please take your time watching this video before we go any further i want to go ahead and point out our sponsor summit racing they have been absolutely amazing to work with this series would not be happening without them so go check out all the links i i've left down below in the description to all the summit stuff they have the best prices on the best stuff make sure you buy all your speed parts from summitracing.com with all that out of the way let's go ahead and jump in so here's our timing set from summit racing as a performance timing set which means it's a double roller and it also has adjustable base timing on it this is pretty kickbutt stuff and it's sent over by our friends at summit racing link down below in the description and there is our wonderful part number and what we can do take it out of the box here examine what we got like i said it's a double roller so it actually has two chains on it which is super super cool check that out oh it's beautiful made in usa and everything gotta love that check it out very cool and what we can do is put all our components in some oil in my nice stainless steel bucket ginger with them we just want that nice and sauced up as oiled as possible this is 5w30 conventional whatever oil that's not important as long as it's nice clean fresh motor oil this one's pretty cool too because it comes with a bearing to ride on the stock unit doesn't have this so that's a little more of a performance oriented thing again put that in our oil make sure that gets nice and flooded and then i also noticed that this set came with some countersunk bolts so this is how it needs to be affixed to the engine because it came with these countersunk bolts our thrust plate for our thrust retention plate for our camshaft has to be countersunk this is the stock one i pulled off that old grubby engine and i had this taken to the machine shop and they countersunk that for me so it's perfectly perpendicular with this surface you don't want it to be you know skewed anyway that's why i had the professionals do it truth be told if you had a steady hand at home and some really nice countersinks you could do that but again it's nice to have it to be dead nuts on it also came with different length dowels i've already installed the shorter dowel in the end of the camshaft you just tap it in really easy but if you needed a longer dial for whatever reason you could use this as well so here is our crankshaft sprocket and this is where you can kind of control where you want your power to come in so you can advance your timing and get a little bit more on the low end but it kind of lays down the top or you can your timing and you'll have more on the top end and not so much on the low end what i like to do is just put it at the zero or known as straight up so you have the best of both worlds so now we are ready to put on our modified uh camshaft thrust plate and it goes on it even tells you back bottom and on the back there i have a bunch of our permatex ultra slick i applied we can see that the kick out goes to the bottom right we can just start the bolt here i'm just putting them finger tight for right this moment there we go that looks pretty good and now i can grab our torque spec which is 10. okay torque wrench loaded up there we go 10 on that bad boy and 10 on that one perfect we can grab some more permatex ultra slick apply it to our finger and we're going to do this surface there we go so i have my of glove here you can see the zero right there that's what i'm aiming for in the woodruff key and i have the woodruff pea perfectly up and down which means the piston number one is that top dead center i've put it in an oven and heated it up you can see it kind of smoking a little bit line that up so zero is on the woodruff key and get it started and then it's going to become a little hard to push on and that's when you need i just like using a socket i have an inch and 5 8 socket i just had lying around it's nice installation tool you can put that on and just start tapping it on oh yeah when it's heated up it goes on like butter and you know you're done when you hear that nice tapping sound and you'll notice it just kind of glided on that there's a reason for that we heated it up and the reason we did that is because just the thrust bearing is holding that you don't want to cause any kind of damage or any kind of thrust plate just tap it on don't beat it on so taking our camshaft gear or sprocket where we want to call it out of our oil and we can see that it has this nice surface here and what goes there is that thrust bearing that i put in our oil earlier and you can see that inside of there kind of tough to see but they're little ball bearings you know it's a regular bearing and you might be wondering which way to put it on well if you try to put it on this way you can see that this surface can still turn so it can't be that and then this one won't so if you flip it over and push it on there oh that's a nice fit you can see that the inner race does not rotate when i do this so the bearing is functioning correctly so we know that this is the way the bearing goes on so on these forwards they only use one bolt to hold the camshaft sprocket to the camshaft and we have this sent over our friends at summit racing it is an arp one five four one zero zero one and this is going to be an absolutely amazing unit um you could reuse the stock one if you wanted to but this is not that expensive and the link is down below description and i always recommend using our favorite fastener company arp and to make sure it doesn't go anywhere we're going to use some red loctite so before we go any further i want to say that our plugs have already been installed by our machine shop they're half inch plugs you can see all three of those there if they haven't been installed go ahead and order the kit i will link down below in the description and just tap them in they're very very easy just use a small socket on the inside and tap tap tap tap and stop just make sure the holes are nice and clean before you do that and here is our timing sprocket and you'll notice it has this little dot this little ping down here and that signifies it wants to be lined up with our zero so we i'm not going to put it on permanently yet we're going to put it on like this and line it up so our dowel and the ping and this zero on top of the woodruff key is all lined up so now we can do is grab our timing chain out of our oil and we're just going to hang that on there perfect just like that get it nice lump not lined up readjust put the bottom on there we go there it is perfect so once we get that on again verify that our pings are matching up right there and right there so this dot is on our zero we have our nice arp bolt and i have some red loctite on there and we're just going to put that in the reason you don't tap this on to the camshaft no matter how you know difficult it might seem is because you don't want to tap the plug on the back of the engine where the cam rides uh out so you're just going to use this bolt to slink it the rest of its way home and i'm just doing this by hand for right now and then once it gets tight i'm going to go ahead and grab my torx back so i have someone holding the back of the engine with some bolts in a large pry bar and then what i'm going to do is get my torque wrench set to 45 foot-pounds and we're going to tighten this bad boy down and there we go 45 foot pounds perfect now i've reinstalled our old bolt i just like to see it turn over to make sure we've done our job right oh yeah you can just feel the power coming off of this timing set so to cover up our awesome timing set summit racing sent over this new timing cover and this is also where our water pump is going to bolt onto later we do have to install the seal for it uh for the crankshaft and it is part number suv link is down below in the description and this one's pretty cool because look it has a mount for a crankshaft trigger which is super cool and your some people would need that in electronic timing application we might even need it on our fuel injection setup that we're going to cover later and then to seal it all up we have this nice felpro gasket set again sent over by our friends at summit racing link is down below in the description vel pro is my favorite choice when it comes to sealing anything so always go with velcro so we have our timing cover here on some wood that way when we're tapping in our seal it doesn't get damaged in any way it's just aluminum so be gentle with it and then i have our seal and you can always tell which way the seal is going to go in because you see that little spring that's going to face inward so it's going to be installed like this this is the front this would be the front of the engine and before we install that we're going to get some silicone rubber or rtv if you will and what that's going to do is not only help seal this surface right here in this area it's also going to act as a little bit of a lubricant so tapping it in is a little easier so this is what our seal should look like nice film of silicon rubber on there and when you store your silicone rubber squeeze a little bit out and then hang it vertically to dry and that'll prevent the rest of your silicone rubber getting ruined and we can put that in the proper way i showed earlier just make sure it's nice and square what i have here is my bearing and race driver set link down below in the description and you want one that's big enough to cover the entire thing before you start tapping so we're going to put a handle in and just start it make sure it's as square as you can get it once you've done a couple taps and you can get started you can take it off and take a look at it and if one side is a little bit higher up than the other like ours over here this is a little bit further down you can remove the handle and tap that see it's much more square now and you just want to keep doing that until it is fully installed [Music] there we go that looks absolutely perfect and you can verify that by looking at where it mates to the timing cover all the way around to make sure there's no unevenness but this is absolutely perfect so before we install our timing cover we're going to need to install our dowels here's one of them they're just front timing cover dowels you can get them at summit racing link down below in the description and you can just place that in its home get it started and just tap it in and once it's stopped it stops don't try to hammer it any further you'll feel it'll just kind of go and stop i like using this brass hammer [Applause] there we go there we go nice and installed and those will help locate the timing cover on the front of the engine all right i've already cleaned off the mating surface for the gasket i've put some contact cement on the back of it and we're going to put it on in its home aligning it on its dowels you can pat that down and then remove it and then put it back on that is going to ensure a perfect seal for us so went down to my local hardware store and picked up some 5 16 18 thread bolts they are just you know around i couldn't really find a kit that was going to work for us so if i find one i'll try to leave it down below in the description but these are all 5 16 by 18 thread this is an inch you're going to need two of these this is two inches you're going to need two of those and this is two and a quarter inches and you're going to need two of those all backed up with the appropriate size 5 16 washer we're going to put them all on just like this with the washer on there and i will call it the lengths of bolts as we're putting them on so i can put on our timing cover making sure we line it up on our dowels that's what the dowels are there for and then you might need to just kind of tap her on just make sure all that lines up and i'm gonna grab our longest bolts for two and a quarters and put them where the dowels are because that is the longest well for our bolts just get those started and then i'm going to grab our two inch bolts and put them here in the mid very cool we're just going to focus on these six bolts right now and i'm just going to put them in finger tight for right now and then we can put them the and then we can put the one-inch bolts on the top and again we're just going to have this finger tight for right now so we can you know tighten it all down nice and sequentially and cross pattern that way it tightens down nice and square so we don't have any leaks so now we're at this stage we're going to go ahead and tighten them down just wrist tight with a half inch socket and you want to do this in a cross pattern and uh ginger lean lightly as you can i mean i'm only going very light with this little teeny tiny ratchet i mean very very light i wouldn't even call it tight and then you might need like a ratcheting wrench or just a regular wrench to do the top there we go and we can keep just wrist tight for right now we're not going crazy yet we're not even grabbing a torque spec we're just slinking her down there we go and now we can grab our torque wrench and torque these down to 10 foot pounds with our torque wrench loaded to 10 foot pounds we can go ahead and tighten them there we go and then on the top one since you can't really get a torque wrench in there you're gonna have to just kind of feel it out that feels like 10. feels like 10. perfect timing cover installed so next we're going to move on to installing our amazing electric water pump provided by summit racing it is summit racing part number 316013 link is down below in the description to this awesome unit because we are going electric water pump this one is pretty cool too because it has two settings for your intake it can either be uh driver passenger side we'll probably go driver for this application but you could change it if you wanted to the flexibility with electric water pumps is really cool that way and then i noticed the bolts it came with look kind of like this which are fine you can totally use them but they're not going to look uniform to what we have already on the timing cover so i have these they're just three inch 5 16 18 and they're going to match what is already on our timing cover and that's just pure aesthetics and again and we have 1 inch 5 16 18 again to replace the different looking ones again you can use this stock mounting hardware but i'm going to use these just for aesthetics and on the long ones that mount here and here we're going to be using the small washers it came with everywhere else we're going to be using the bigger washers and it did come with a plate and it did come with a gasket you can totally use that i'm sure works perfectly but our felpro kit came with the gaskets identical so we're gonna be using that and we're gonna put our plate on first so on this side of our gasket i've already put some contact cement line it up to its home where it's going to be pat it down and we're going to take it off and put it back on and make sure you line it up and move quickly because the contact cement is setting we just want to make sure we line up all of our holes so we're going to take some rtv and we're going to apply it around where the water is going to go just the skin of it this is going to prevent leakage you don't need to go crazy on it just the skin's good on both sides it's going to prevent leakage in the future load it up with one of our bolts and washers we can install that bad boy at least finger tight line it up so you don't disturb your gasket it's perfect now you want to leave these loose so you have a little bit of play while you're putting the other bolts in now these don't need to be tight binometric this is fine and we can grab our water pump so i'm going to get some spray adhesive apply them to our seal apply them on our water pump take them off put it back on like that very good do the same thing for this side make sure it's nice and lined up because once that cement sets it really doesn't want to be disturbed perfect we're going to grab a little of our friend our tv we're going to put it around again inside the gasket something a little interesting about this water pump is you want to pre-load the bottom bolts before you take it over to the engine because it'll be really difficult to get that in maybe not even possible with the engine in the way these ones have that yeah there we go now we can take this over so with our three and one quarter inch bolts pre-loaded on the bottom install our water pump and with our small washer loaded for the top you can install those bolts as well we're just going to put them on finger tight for right this moment put these on finger tight there we go pretty good all righty and then we can tighten our bolts up and much of a cross pattern as we can get it so you know go bottom right and then top right and then bottom left and top left just snug those down the torque spec for these bad boys is 15 or so foot pounds i'm just gonna feel it out because i can't get a socket on this anyway so that's that and then we can tighten the top bolts as well again just going kind of a cross pattern just go side to side just don't tighten one side all the way down and then do the other you always want to go side to side so when you're tightening them kind of go like here to here then down to here up here and then when you're tightening the top go here to here to here it'll be nice and square so here is our fuel pump block off cover for our timing cover it came with our timing cover and we're going to install that bad boy using some spray adhesive one side sticking it on lifting it off putting it back on adjusting it so it's lined up perfectly like that and then we can grab some rtv and apply it on this side of the gasket end of our finger there we go i start to beat up we can install we're gonna be putting this cover on because we're not running carbureted we're running fuel injected which means you need a higher psi supply of fuel if you were running mechanical you need that eccentric on the end of your timing set and then your fuel pump can ride right here on it and it works just fine for carbureted you could even use an electric fuel pump for carburetor you just have to get an electric fuel pump for a carburetor has less psi we can grab our cover plate place that bad boy on replace our bolts and you're just fastening these 9 16 into aluminum so don't go crazy just wrist snug is fine perfect now we can install our water intake tube on the appropriate side for an 81 bronco we want it to come in on the driver's side just like the stock application and you can switch these up as needed and what's interesting is this is just a machine piece of aluminum there's no really way to like there's no good way to tighten it on so what we're going to do is take a shop towel around the widest part with a pair of channel locks and i'm just being gentle i'm not crushing it i'm just tightening it up perfectly so now i can talk about crankshaft damper and before i go any further if i haven't mentioned it previously in the build we have an internally balanced crankshaft so you need the associated damper and flex plate or flywheel make sure you're buying all either externally balanced or internally balanced i prefer internally balanced that's what everyone at the machine shop told me is the better deal in our you know hot street application so that is this part number right here this crankshaft damper is made by ford racing sent over by our friends at summit and it looks amazing geez it looks like a million bucks this is made out of oh yeah high grade metal that is awesome you can even use this in a supercharged application if you wanted to because it has the associated holes for that pulley one piece kind of feels like it's billet i'm not sure if it is or isn't but it is really nice and high quality but what we're gonna do is stick this in my toaster oven and get it nice and warm about 200 degrees or so so that'll expand the metal and make it easier to put on the crankshaft so while our damper is heating up in our toaster oven the instructions actually say put it in boiling water i kind of disagree with that just because boiling water is kind of dangerous and a toaster oven works just fine here is our bolt we're going to be using after we've installed our damper it's made by rp our part number and it does come with assembly loops we're going to lube up the entire threads under the head of the bowl and on both sides of the washer and for the washer there's a beveled side it's pointed up so that bevel side needs to point up to the head of the bowl now to install it we have our installation tools this one's made by oem i will leave a link down below in the description to one of these bad boys and you just pick the associated bit for that that will fit in our cranks now you can also rent these for free at autozone or o'reilly's or something like that just make sure that this this race is against the nut so that way it can turn easier when you're applying a bunch of pressure alrighty before we put the damper on i want to point out that our damper is larger in diameter than stock so we had to clearance our timing cover just a little bit and even on some water pumps you might have to clearance it and luckily they're made of aluminum so it was pretty easy to cut that off but do a test fit of it before then an eyeball what you might have to clearance or whatnot because this is a bigger diameter than stock that's racing and that's custom applications so you just have to test fit it so we're going to do next is take a paintbrush or any kind of brush and apply some permatex ultra slick to it and we're going to brush it on the outside of the snout here now over the inside only the outside just make sure it goes all the way to the top and what that's going to do is protect the rubber seal that's in the front of our timing cover perfect now with our of glove because the stamper is probably about 180 degrees it's pretty toasty we're going to stick it on the end of our cranks now so when you're putting on your damper what i like to do is just find the wood drift key which ours is right there rotate it over look at the notch for the wood drift key on your damper and we can install it and then rotate it around until it finds it it'll slide on a little bit and then we can grab our tool install that bad boy all the way in you want to insert the tool with as many threads as possible a lot of force going on make sure everything on your tool is nice and lubricated and then a 9 16 wrench on the end of the tool and an inch and a quarter on this nut i'm turning and we're going to be able to see that go all the way down and it's important not to you know hammer on this thing that's why you want to use a tool do it right oh yes things going on like a cream puff dig it there we go nice and installed and then we need to grab our bolt and remove our tool i want to go over when you know to stop because it's pretty tough you can see right there this surface here my pointers on is right up against the cog for our timing set for the crankshaft that's how you know it's in its home and now we can put the bolt in so i'm going to go over fundamental of engine building it's holding the crankshaft using the flex plate bolts you put them in the rear and then you have a nice big prying implement to hold it in place you can even turn the engine over using this method what we're going to do is i'm going to have a helper hold the onto this for me while i bolt on the damper bolt just because there's a lot of torque forces going on and as soon as that gets any kind of pressure it's going to want to rotate the crankshaft instead of tightening down and grab our damper bolt it's a 16 millimeter 12 point in our case and it is all lubricated up like i mentioned earlier install this just hand tight for right now perfect grab our torque wrench and set that bad boy to 90 foot pounds while someone is holding the back of the engine okay torque wrench loaded to 90. i'm going to tighten this bad boy down there we go 90 foot pounds now as per the instructions once it's cooled down go ahead and recheck it to make sure this is still at 90 foot-pounds all right it's about 40 minutes later it's about room temp a little warmer than that and we can test the torque again holding the back of the engine oh it's perfect so that is how to put a timing set timing cover water pump and crankshaft damper on a 402 windsor or in our case a 347 stroker thank you so very much for watching i hope i've earned your subscription here today on youtube because we will be continuing to build this engine out showing every single nut and bolt and torque spec and size we are going to hold your hand totally so you can build one of these bad boys for yourself at home using our sponsor summit racing thanks again for watching and i'll see you next time

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Length: 28min 35sec (1715 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 04 2021