4 Cylinder Inline Engine

I machined 4 connecting rods on the CNC today but it took me twice as long as it should. There was a power glitch that spoiled one of the rods and I had a couple of senior moments.
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Made some slots for the rod bolts to set in and then halted machining for the day.
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One last thing I wanted to get some paint on the crankshaft before it started to rust.
Looks pretty nice.
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Thanks for looking
Ray
 
Thank you Tom you are always welcome.

Spent the day working on the connecting rods.
First was drill the holes for the rod bolts.
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Then cut the ends off and tap the threads.
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The needle bearings I am using have a rather thin shell so not to squeeze them too tightly with the rod caps I used an expandable reamer and an extra bearing for fit.
Once I had the first rod cap size set the other three were a piece of cake.

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Thanks for looking
Ray
 
Thanks Boswell and Chris for the kind words.

The crank looked so nice and shiny that I decided to paint the engine block.

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I have this triangular piece of aluminum left over from my 5 cyl rotary build. It is too good for the scrap bin but it never seems to work for what I am making at the time.
So nothing ventured nothing gained.
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In there somewhere are four motor mounts
I just need to get rid of the other bits.
This is fairly close to what I imagined.
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Thanks for looking
Ray
 
I was going to use Allis Chalmers orange but I already have two engines painted that color
This is Royal Blue from Ace hardware but it is close to a Ford color.

Ray
 
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