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Generated stand-in image for Engine Rebuild. Not a photograph of the real build.

Mechanical

Engine Rebuild

A full teardown and rebuild of an engine, down to the bare block and back together running.

01

Spec

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StatusIn progress

000TBD

02

Constraint

What made it hard

Clearances on a rebuild are measured, not assumed. A bearing that is close enough goes back together fine and fails a thousand miles later, so every tolerance had to be checked against spec before anything was torqued.

03

Decision

What I chose, and what I rejected

I did the assembly myself and sent out only the work that needs a machine I do not have. Measuring, checking and reassembling is where the understanding is, and paying somebody else for that part would have left me with a running engine I did not know anything about.