2008 Week 51 in Review
December 14 to December 20, 2008
Work continues on the Catalyst
This week, I kept filing and sanding and polishing the crankshaft journals to fit the newly-poured bearings. I am very thankful that this is almost done.
I also installed the main bearings in the engine. Since we had them machined to be thicker on the sides, they were a little hard to roll in, but we got them in anyway. Once they were in, I used plastigauges (remember Week 45) to measure the clearance. We're shooting for four to five thousands of an inch clearance on the main bearings.
On the automotive bail-out
This week, Old Tacoma Marine inc. chose not to send the CEO in his jet to beg the United States government for a bail-out, because to do so would completely undermine the survival of the fittest in the free market and promote poor products and inefficient operations. Though such a trip would most likely have gained OTM Inc a few billion dollars (the way they're giving it away these days), we decided to make it on our own.
