Managed to get a bit done today. Not all went according to plan, but its all par for the course.
Put all the case bolts back in excluding the head studs.
Then bolted the case together and torqued it down.
Out with my line bore tools
The case is cut for standard mains, but I can see the #1 (thrust) bearing will need more than a 0,5mm cut.
But instead of moving straight to a 1mm cut, I went for the 0.5mm cut first so that I have a good seating point to cut the thrust face.
I am not fond of the way the thrust cutter marks the journal, so it should to be done before the line bore. Anyway, my logic was to give it a bigger, rounder seating area by boring to 0.5mm then doing the thrust cut and then reboring to 1mm which should be final size.
0.5mm line bore
Thrust block inserted and cutting of the thrust face
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You might notice that the thrust face isnt 100% cleaned up. That is due to the amount of wear of the face. I cant cut it further as I have no secure way of locating the thrust cutter and keeping it level if it doesnt rest against the case from the inside. But it does cut a larger diameter than the previous cut, so it is still nicely cleaned up enough to support the bearing.
1mm cut - unfortunately, this still didnt clean up the bearing journal
So, on to a 1.5mm cut. This cleaned it up nicely.
O yes, nearly forgot. @Wentzel gave me a tip to use a Golf 1100 ring as a spacer. I bought myself a ring pack for a 20thou oversize 1100 golf and this fits nicely. Before you guys go on about price, this ring pack was just under R150. For that price I couldnt say no.
here it is fitted loose using the top compression ring
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