.RJ Wrote:Excessive crank movement when the clutch is depressed.
Service limit is .006" (six thousandths?) mine was (estimated) to be around .020". That was by the "finger-i've-felt-crank-play-1000-times" method, but the point was that it was measurable, and it shouldn't be.
However, the fact that it's running at all speaks volumes in itself. If I have not beaten through my bearing into the block, it will be easily salvageable. We'll find out when the pan is pulled. This also means my transmission might not be as bad as I thought it was (hell, it only has 126k) because as the clutch was disengaging, the entire crankshaft (flywheel included) was moving with it. In the meantime, I'm taking the tags off, the insurance off, and I'm waiting patiently for my garage to be completed. (They dug footers 2 days ago.) So the garage will be broken in properly with, at least, a bottom end overhaul. If my crank is no good, then we'll go stroker, and a full rebuild as well. I might do that anyway. I mean, it's not like I need it for transportation like the metro, and unlike the Supra, I'm not up to my nuts in credit card debt. I said this was going to be my cash project and damn it, it's gonna be my cash project.
It'll be fun. You guys will get a full write-up on making a 2.3 liter monstrosity out of a 4G63...who knows when you'll use that information?
