**OEM Calibration and Engine Work**

The process of calibrating an OEM engine involves a series of steps that require attention to detail and precision. In this particular instance, the subject was concerned with the engine's performance and decided to take it upon themselves to perform some calibration work.

One of the first things they did was to check the plastic gauge, which is used to measure the clearance between the bearing and the crankshaft journal. They found that the gauge had been mangled in a previous attempt at calibration, but fortunately, this didn't seem to have affected its accuracy too much. The reading showed that the clearance was around 15,000 inches, which is within the normal range.

However, they also discovered that one of the bearings was slightly stuck, requiring them to use a special tool to remove it. This revealed that all the other rods were similarly affected, with some showing significant play in their movement. The subject noted that this was not unusual, as this type of engine is prone to bearing wear and tear.

To address this issue, they decided to perform an individual calibration on each rod, using a similar process to calibrate the crankshaft. They used a plastic gauge to measure the clearance between the bearing and the crankshaft journal, and found that all four rods showed similar readings, ranging from 15,000 to 10,000 inches.

The subject noted that this was a good sign, indicating that all the rods were within the normal range of performance. However, they also acknowledged that this was not uncommon for this type of engine, which is known to be prone to bearing wear and tear.

In addition to calibrating the rods, the subject also realized that they needed to upgrade their clutch system. The original eBay clutch was starting to slip at high horsepower, and therefore needed to be replaced with a more robust unit. They also noted that this type of engine has a specific clutch design due to its four-wheel drive system.

Despite the challenges posed by this type of engine, the subject remained optimistic about the project's progress. They had completed all the rod calibrations and were now waiting for the piston rings to arrive. Once these arrived, they would be able to complete the bottom end of the engine and finally bring their project to life.

The subject ended their video log by expressing a sense of disappointment that they hadn't been able to complete as much work as they had hoped for that day. However, they were still pleased with the progress they had made and were looking forward to continuing their project in the near future.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right guys so I'm going to be working on the Block today for my wagon we were going to do this over at PFI but decided just to do it here since they are still pretty busy up there and this morning I was checking all my old ring gaps and this number three cylinder is one of the worst and they are all super loose this one right here is like over 35,000 which is way too loose for a ring Gap and all the others aren't that bad but they're Loose as well so I do have a new set of rings coming and we're going to have to wait on that before I can get the rods and pistons dropped in but for now we are still going to check the clearances on the crankshaft we got some plastic GAE right here and then I have the main bearings with me as well got the crank in this bag and since we did grind a 10 over we are going to check it to make sure everything clearance is out all right so that's what we're going to be doing for today hate these freaking packages can't open the damn thing freaking childproof all right we got the first set of bearings in there and you can't really see it on camera cuz once now that it's focused you can see that little green line right there and that's the plastic gauge and then once we put the crank on there and tighten it down it will squish it out then we'll have a little tool like on this piece of paper right here to measure how the Gap in between the bearing and the crank cuz we need that to be a certain amount cuz I'm pretty sure that's what messed up last time when I put this thing together cuz all the bearings were trashed so we're going to double check it on this one especially since it was machined do not rotate this do not spin it do not spin it then we'll just put uh some more on the tops of them put the main cap on and tighten it all down y now torque them down thanks I should mentioned something about building a tractor this how I build my tractor motors with the plastic gauge plastic G the green oh I use the red the the fine the only the finest for my tractor day Ricky now we need a torque Ranch torque Ranch torque them all down to spec and we going to pull right back off yep you get to see how up they all are how loose they are you get to call the Machine Shop in the morning I bet you you get a comment you TOR them in the wrong orders probably I'm just opening them in some sort of star pattern I just do it in the circle outwards that's how I done it yeah I just do like one two 3 four 5 6 7 8 9 10 I think that's how you do it OEM yeah I don't remember they can complain all they want pull it out it already there we go now take them all loose now you get to take it off here tell them what you did what tell them what you did they know what we did we torqued them down and that's it now we got to take it off and see how much the plastic gauge squished out then we'll know and if it's good we're going to put it back together and that part will be done till I get the piston rings in trying to bite a fly oh yeah she always goes after FES a be last summer and I take it to the emergency thing her whole face was swollen Lucy how much boo you on tonight trying to get some launches all wheel drive launches go look get in the car let's go in the RX7 let's go go for what go for what Shey tonight that's a 20 lb T what she's at least on 20 psi tonight loose let's go she on kill mode car ride let's go for a ride come on loose let's go for a walk Mo right let's go come on come on oh has no traction need to upgrade them paws that thing's hopping off the line they're Loosey as gooes are they lucies no pretty good yeah that doesn't seem too bad let me see if I can focus in on one my camera just kind of messed up so I didn't feel I was pulling the cap off but there's the plastic gauge right there that little spot in the middle is from the groove in the bearing so that's normal about 15,000 a little yeah about oh that's about 10,000 so pretty tight that way to the about 10,000 about 10 about 12 oh we already did this one huh yeah we did that one and this one's a good one to get an idea of on but you just lay the paper next to it and then read what it is yeah which is about 10,000 of an inch and that tells you how much clearance there is between the bearing and this crank Journal dude this thing will not Focus oh there it goes oh yeah going check the other side too you though it should be the same probably have some bearings stuck you got one yep bastard so you think that's pretty good I want to run it yep it's not too bad check the crank or the rods think we can still do that today yeah might as well might as well but yeah that's good to go so they all look fairly tight a little tighter than I would run but no I'm just you that'll be good nice decent well crank is good ready to go on onto the rods all right so we got the crank all measured out everything seems good there and right now we're going to have to do each Rod individually because we can't spin it while it's on the crankshaft so we're doing the number two cylinder right now and then it's just the same process just put another piece of plastic Edge on that bearing clamp the rod down to the crank and then unbolt it and see where it's at all right so we just got that rod all torqued down took it apart and it plasy gauged out to 15,000 which is good so we're going to go ahead and get the other three done and hopefully they all check out as well then I just got to wait on the Rings to come in and we'll be able to get the bottom end completely put together so we got all the rods checked out everything seems good and unfortunately that's as far as we can get for tonight until I get the piston rings in so I was hoping I could get the bottom end for Wago done today but got to wait for those Rings didn't realize they were uh so loose so once those come in I'll be able to get the bottom end all the way together and then I also realized that I still need a clutch because the eBay clutch that was in here was starting to slip at 320 wheel horsepower or whatever it was making so I'm going to have to upgrade the clutch as well and I'll probably order that once I get the whole bottom end together or I might actually just order it tonight we'll see it's kind of hard to find a clutch for these because they are kind of specific to the four-wheel drive cuz the throwout bearing is a different size and it's also a cable instead of a hydraulic clutch but I think that's going to be it for tonight guys sorry for uh kind of short boring video but this is pretty much all we got done today so that's going to be it for tonight thanks for watchingall right guys so I'm going to be working on the Block today for my wagon we were going to do this over at PFI but decided just to do it here since they are still pretty busy up there and this morning I was checking all my old ring gaps and this number three cylinder is one of the worst and they are all super loose this one right here is like over 35,000 which is way too loose for a ring Gap and all the others aren't that bad but they're Loose as well so I do have a new set of rings coming and we're going to have to wait on that before I can get the rods and pistons dropped in but for now we are still going to check the clearances on the crankshaft we got some plastic GAE right here and then I have the main bearings with me as well got the crank in this bag and since we did grind a 10 over we are going to check it to make sure everything clearance is out all right so that's what we're going to be doing for today hate these freaking packages can't open the damn thing freaking childproof all right we got the first set of bearings in there and you can't really see it on camera cuz once now that it's focused you can see that little green line right there and that's the plastic gauge and then once we put the crank on there and tighten it down it will squish it out then we'll have a little tool like on this piece of paper right here to measure how the Gap in between the bearing and the crank cuz we need that to be a certain amount cuz I'm pretty sure that's what messed up last time when I put this thing together cuz all the bearings were trashed so we're going to double check it on this one especially since it was machined do not rotate this do not spin it do not spin it then we'll just put uh some more on the tops of them put the main cap on and tighten it all down y now torque them down thanks I should mentioned something about building a tractor this how I build my tractor motors with the plastic gauge plastic G the green oh I use the red the the fine the only the finest for my tractor day Ricky now we need a torque Ranch torque Ranch torque them all down to spec and we going to pull right back off yep you get to see how up they all are how loose they are you get to call the Machine Shop in the morning I bet you you get a comment you TOR them in the wrong orders probably I'm just opening them in some sort of star pattern I just do it in the circle outwards that's how I done it yeah I just do like one two 3 four 5 6 7 8 9 10 I think that's how you do it OEM yeah I don't remember they can complain all they want pull it out it already there we go now take them all loose now you get to take it off here tell them what you did what tell them what you did they know what we did we torqued them down and that's it now we got to take it off and see how much the plastic gauge squished out then we'll know and if it's good we're going to put it back together and that part will be done till I get the piston rings in trying to bite a fly oh yeah she always goes after FES a be last summer and I take it to the emergency thing her whole face was swollen Lucy how much boo you on tonight trying to get some launches all wheel drive launches go look get in the car let's go in the RX7 let's go go for what go for what Shey tonight that's a 20 lb T what she's at least on 20 psi tonight loose let's go she on kill mode car ride let's go for a ride come on loose let's go for a walk Mo right let's go come on come on oh has no traction need to upgrade them paws that thing's hopping off the line they're Loosey as gooes are they lucies no pretty good yeah that doesn't seem too bad let me see if I can focus in on one my camera just kind of messed up so I didn't feel I was pulling the cap off but there's the plastic gauge right there that little spot in the middle is from the groove in the bearing so that's normal about 15,000 a little yeah about oh that's about 10,000 so pretty tight that way to the about 10,000 about 10 about 12 oh we already did this one huh yeah we did that one and this one's a good one to get an idea of on but you just lay the paper next to it and then read what it is yeah which is about 10,000 of an inch and that tells you how much clearance there is between the bearing and this crank Journal dude this thing will not Focus oh there it goes oh yeah going check the other side too you though it should be the same probably have some bearings stuck you got one yep bastard so you think that's pretty good I want to run it yep it's not too bad check the crank or the rods think we can still do that today yeah might as well might as well but yeah that's good to go so they all look fairly tight a little tighter than I would run but no I'm just you that'll be good nice decent well crank is good ready to go on onto the rods all right so we got the crank all measured out everything seems good there and right now we're going to have to do each Rod individually because we can't spin it while it's on the crankshaft so we're doing the number two cylinder right now and then it's just the same process just put another piece of plastic Edge on that bearing clamp the rod down to the crank and then unbolt it and see where it's at all right so we just got that rod all torqued down took it apart and it plasy gauged out to 15,000 which is good so we're going to go ahead and get the other three done and hopefully they all check out as well then I just got to wait on the Rings to come in and we'll be able to get the bottom end completely put together so we got all the rods checked out everything seems good and unfortunately that's as far as we can get for tonight until I get the piston rings in so I was hoping I could get the bottom end for Wago done today but got to wait for those Rings didn't realize they were uh so loose so once those come in I'll be able to get the bottom end all the way together and then I also realized that I still need a clutch because the eBay clutch that was in here was starting to slip at 320 wheel horsepower or whatever it was making so I'm going to have to upgrade the clutch as well and I'll probably order that once I get the whole bottom end together or I might actually just order it tonight we'll see it's kind of hard to find a clutch for these because they are kind of specific to the four-wheel drive cuz the throwout bearing is a different size and it's also a cable instead of a hydraulic clutch but I think that's going to be it for tonight guys sorry for uh kind of short boring video but this is pretty much all we got done today so that's going to be it for tonight thanks for watching\n"