Update time again! Made some progress this afternoon, got the crank in and all measured up.

I started by giving the crank a degrease and a wipe to get rid of any shite that had stuck to it over the last month


Also degrease my new ACL shells


I then started to measure the thickness of each shell at both ends and in the centre, they were all closly matched with only 0.005mm between all of them.


I had originally planned to measure each journal to give me a starting point as to where to put each shell, but I didnt have to tooling unfortunatly. So I just put them all in and using Plastigauge measured each one



I tightened to specified torque every time





I did this three times to get the smallest range of clearances and ended up with approximatly 0.053mm to 0.0060mm on all five which is about in the middle of fords upper and lower limits of 0.025-0.079mm clearance. So Im happy with that!

I then went on to set the end float of the crankshaft using some gen ford thrusts. I had a quick measure up and they were all near enough the same, not that I could swap and change any way!

I ended up with 0.18mm end float which again is in the middle of fords tolerances of 0.1-0.254mm.



And there you have it, one fitted crank



Next job is to size up the big ends when I get my con rods back from the metal finishers, Which should be either monday or tuesday!