There’s a a tool you can get for those spiral locks. It threads the lock on, then you just thread the locks into the piston. Almost like using a screwdriver. Makes it super easy.
@@BlaserBuilds I put all 8 of my rods/pistons together and on the last one I realized I had pistons clocked upside-down. Now that was a REAL pain in the ass! LMAO!
First time I put spiral locks in I didn’t look at the instructions to walk them in- get this I took a tapered pipe that fit the pin bore and I made a mandrel fit in side the lock put em in the and taper pipe in the pin bore and pushed the shit out of it with the mandrel and they snapped in. Lol
I have to add that it took forever to make this shit work and it was hard as hell to pop them in. My buddy come over after I finished and was like ya walking those clips in sux huh? 🤢
@@BlaserBuilds oh ok my machine shop was telling me to try to get forged pistons close to the stock piston weight because adding weight to the Crank is expensive. But great content and thanks for the timely response 💪🏾
@@BlaserBuilds I watched his video right before yours and thought you had a way around it. But I’ll see if the guy at my shop will use weld instead of tungsten.
My machine shop called 2 weeks after dropping mine off and told me just to get the matching crank to the pistons and rods haha. I think it's allot of work to use the factory crank with these rods/pistons
13:42 I mean absolutely no offence only for inisight, but as a vet ase cert I can tell you that the first and third bolt you torqued in this video clip were over torqued by atleast 5 degrees after it cammed, you can see them tighten more while the second bolt tq was done perfect. To use a tq wrench properly pressure must be immediately reduced after the initial breakout and not to aloud to turn past it. If you accurate wrench was set to 82 in this video I would assume they were hit with about 96-100 with the extra hit, bearing distortion and service life would be altered
@@Kevin-zo6nz HAHAHAHAHAHA Friggin torque wrench is 8% +\- and ur telling this to a dude that has broke EVERY SINGLE head bolt on purpose "just to see their limits".
@@TheProchargedmopar I've broken a 54mm diameter stud with a shear brake to test its strength to hold a water tower in high wind, is that relevant? what's your point?
Ase certs lol.... His little bump didn't add 10-20 ft pounds, mayby 2-3. It'll be fine. At least he isn't using a trash Snap-On electronic one that lies to you
