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Old Apr 11, 2009 | 10:49 PM
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Alright I made a boo boo.I was putting on the flex plate on the stroker today,using the new bolts I bought. First mistake, I used an impact to zip them on. I soon realized that the bolts were too long,I looked between the crank and the block and found that they were bottomed out,oops. I backed them out and noticed the main cap had a small ring where the bolts had made contact, and the block had small chips where the bolts had nicked it. I took the file and took off as much of the chips as I could. Doesn't look like a biggie hope thats all the damage I did, I feel like such a tool. O yeah I used the old bolts off the L48, they fit perfect.
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Old Apr 11, 2009 | 11:55 PM
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Alright I made a boo boo.I was putting on the flex plate on the stroker today,using the new bolts I bought. First mistake, I used an impact to zip them on. I soon realized that the bolts were too long,I looked between the crank and the block and found that they were bottomed out,oops. I backed them out and noticed the main cap had a small ring where the bolts had made contact, and the block had small chips where the bolts had nicked it. I took the file and took off as much of the chips as I could. Doesn't look like a biggie hope thats all the damage I did, I feel like such a tool. O yeah I used the old bolts off the L48, they fit perfect.
sounds like they supplied the wrong bolts...maybe they sent flywheel bolts instead of flexplate's.........
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Old Apr 12, 2009 | 03:18 PM
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I sure hope you didn't trash your thrust bearings!
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