Stang_ROTY I have been thinking about this for a day now and some thing has been eating at me and now i worked it out.
1.He then brought up the point of checking the end play and thrust bearing some day. He said he was curious and just wanted to check.(maybe he wasnt sure how he had set it)
2.I noticed he was shaking his head as if he couldn't get an accurate measurement and moved to the back of the block. I didn't hear anything from him for a minute or two and then I asked him. He told me "It's .0012, could be worse. I'd tell you not to run the engine down the track if it was closer to .0030" We then looked in the spec book and it said between .004 and .008 for a Ford. (he should of know this or does he mainly do chivey's?)(did he not know this when he assembled it?)
3.I'd tell you not to run the engine down the track if it was closer to .0030 (why that much)
4. End play like that come from am inproperly seated thrust bearing not heat. For the amount of heat your engine saw it wouldnt of diapated enough heat to unseat the front bearing. ( i have seen engines run overheating for days. desiels in the former Yougoslavia that didnt get that much run out and aslo had a Iltis (canadian jeep) that we had to replace the head but the bottom end was OK after three days of running with no rad.)(ok to run over seas but we would of replaced it here.
Since your builder brought it up i would assume he was having doubts about the tolerences himself secondly if I'm checking something i look up the spec first so i have a idea while I'm down there. or if someone else is doing it they dont try the hey your end play is .006 we have to fix that .
bust my .02 cent try checking it yourself or getting someone else to help.
secondly when building an engine get somone who works on that brand not always the best guy. I almost messed up my friends DODGE by setting it to what i thought was right.
Bill good luck man.
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89 with 395 single stage n2o .garret t3. 373's Suspention worked out finnaly . need cage .
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