Geez It's like waking up on a bed of spikes with these engines. nothing is ever good enough for these picky little things!
So as you know I've retapped to 3/8" from 8mm because of stripped threads, I happen to have the stupid 1.00 M8 studs which it just great because no one carries heli coils in that size. So I said f*** it! They sell 3/8 rod, they got 3/8" taps, they got 3/8" heat nuts, they have it all here at princess auto!
But as usual nothing is ever simple, I knew I had to drill out my head and cylinder to fit and so I did with my drill press. What a "fun" time that was my 3/8's drill bit was all bent up after but it was the biggest one I had.
It seems like china need to go back to engineering school because the stud holes are unevenly placed making it very hard to put the cylinder on and the head, I ended up cracking two fins and having to WB weld them to keep them from cracking any more. I have to use a mallet and a rubber wrench handle to get it on by hammering the center of the cylinder where the gasket goes.
I recently rebuilt my engine AGAIN with new gaskets because this crank it to wide for the case and without a crank case gasket it rubs and makes lots of heat nothing like my old GT5 which was great up until the ring bearing on the crank exploded, I had to replace a bearing on one side it looked like it got no oil while the other was saturated in oil I have never seen that before, the thing was black and sooty.
Anyways I noticed cracks on two side of the studs in the crankcase so I have patched them up with High temp putty for now, I also noticed small holes in places where the drill must have gone to far but form the looks of it they didn't macine it right to begin with so I patched it with high temp putty as well, but my god worst engine I have ever had so far nothing but bulls**t and problems from the start.
I want to know if anyone else has retapped and what they have done to make things go more smoothly.
So as you know I've retapped to 3/8" from 8mm because of stripped threads, I happen to have the stupid 1.00 M8 studs which it just great because no one carries heli coils in that size. So I said f*** it! They sell 3/8 rod, they got 3/8" taps, they got 3/8" heat nuts, they have it all here at princess auto!
But as usual nothing is ever simple, I knew I had to drill out my head and cylinder to fit and so I did with my drill press. What a "fun" time that was my 3/8's drill bit was all bent up after but it was the biggest one I had.
It seems like china need to go back to engineering school because the stud holes are unevenly placed making it very hard to put the cylinder on and the head, I ended up cracking two fins and having to WB weld them to keep them from cracking any more. I have to use a mallet and a rubber wrench handle to get it on by hammering the center of the cylinder where the gasket goes.
I recently rebuilt my engine AGAIN with new gaskets because this crank it to wide for the case and without a crank case gasket it rubs and makes lots of heat nothing like my old GT5 which was great up until the ring bearing on the crank exploded, I had to replace a bearing on one side it looked like it got no oil while the other was saturated in oil I have never seen that before, the thing was black and sooty.
Anyways I noticed cracks on two side of the studs in the crankcase so I have patched them up with High temp putty for now, I also noticed small holes in places where the drill must have gone to far but form the looks of it they didn't macine it right to begin with so I patched it with high temp putty as well, but my god worst engine I have ever had so far nothing but bulls**t and problems from the start.
I want to know if anyone else has retapped and what they have done to make things go more smoothly.