Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

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[langleylad]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

I enjoyed that . But your shop is way to clean . Please at least have something on the floor to trip over ! .

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

Blame my father in law, it's his shop (and his GTX).

Brian

[oldsman496]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

those 360's remind me of my oldsmobiles......glad that the cam is out!

[mlcraven]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

Brian: great photo pictorial of the teardown. And you had a lot of us on the edge of our seats with the "Sword in the Stone" thread (well, maybe leaning forward in our chairs just a little bit). Glad to see you came out the boss!

[Scott Liggett]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

Blame my father in law, it's his shop (and his GTX).

Brian

Oh, this blog was about the AMC 360? I didnt get any further than the red GTX. lol. Nice work and pics. Great detail shots.

[squirrel]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

I'm not seeing the horrendous wear on the crank...maybe the pics don't show it? maybe it's not as bad as you think it is?

A mic will tell you a lot

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

My father in law, being a mechanical engineer has all the good measuring goodies. We're hoping to do that tomorrow night. We're going to check the bores, crank, etc to see how close stuff is.

Brian

[squirrel]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

Believe it or not you can get a pretty good idea of how worn it is by just feeling the wear....cylinder bore wear mostly happens at the top, if you can't feel a slight bit of "ridge" then it's probably worn less than 2 thousandths. If you can't feel any wear on the crank then it's probably worn less than 1 thousandth.

Wear is usually very noticeable....but it also takes expereience to know how much wear there is by how the parts look/feel

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

The good news is that there isn't anything overtly fubar with the crank and there is minimal ridge at the tops of the bores. Hopefully it all checks out good.

There's another option that was planted in my ear. I can buy a 401 crank from Rock Auto for 2-300 bucks and it drops into this block and gives me a 385 (with stock bore).

That's appealing...

Brian

[squirrel]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

you'd need 401 pistons though, right? to get the right pin height

this was supposed to be a quick rering job to get it running...not another money hole?

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

Yeah it would require rods and pistons because the rod journals of the 401 crank are larger than the 360's and the pin height issue would be a problem.

Why does my imaginery bank account never run dry like the real one?

Thanks for the reality check Jim.

Brian

[oldsman71]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

them cheap re-ring motors are the best!!! fresh rings and bearings
valve lap and seals sometimes seems as good as a new one!!! :D
plus not alot of machine shop stuff. I hate paying hi $$$ for simple
machine work.

[squirrel]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

The cheap re-ring jobs are great, if everything is in good enough shape. Should be able to get 20k+ miles out of it, probably more if there's very little bore taper

[Caveman]

Re: Attila the Jav: We Tear Down Our AMC 360

What were the dates on the bearing shells?

Is this a virgin AMC beeeaaaatch?