Should I be worried that my endplay has gone after using assembly lube in final put together of shims? Paranoid something else has got in there now....
...paranoia won.. Quick garage visit before work title out defore the permatex goes off .. Just for info .3 a .32 and a 36 add up to 1.06 with lube in them!.. And there's the play gone. Put it all back Friday
Check the end float without oil Between the shims. When you strip an engine the shims are stuck together with the faintest trace of oil if you oil them up you will.find more end play after you have run the engine for a while.
I sold a very good 1600 tp last year and the guy who bought it said there was a bit of end float. Man, he had to be joking. There was absolutely no movement whatsoever. I told him to leave it and go find a better one. He had it and smiled. I think end float is used as a buying tool by some savvy folk.
Endfloat is not really bad until it starts clattering as the crank bounces off things. This I think happens around 3-4mm endfloat with the gland nut undone. I held that engine together by riding the clutch for a few miles and holding the revs up to push the crank back. Later while rebuilding, I too have had the end-float faff of putting them in and measuring zero , and panicking because I had not applied substantial pressure to squeeze out the oil. In the end I just kept going until it clunked slightly after running, a bit less than the 0.15 on the tappets feels like. I think it is actually just on the upper end of the official limit as I have it now which was zero when first assembled.
Ta.. did the checking thing dry... just when doing the double check when done and none I panicked that I left something else in there.. happy to find nothing but assembly oil using up the space..geting it all back in later in preparation for head building weekend....what could go wrong....no need to answer that last one..could be anything...
