Well progress is slow but I'm still pushing forward.
The wife and my weekly schedule, some areas have definitely slowed down for us, while other areas have gotten busy again. So exactly when I do get to "hit-it", varies day to day, week to week, and as usual, I'm not as far along as I'd like to be. Lots of family and work issues to tend to.
I made a decision to try something different this time, which is to try to do some of the work on a table in my basement. Saves me from having to heat up the garage every time, clearing the garage workbench area, and then re-putting everything back so that Nancy can get her car back into the garage at night. So far, it's working out well. I make sure I degrease all the parts well with odorless cleaners to keep the smells under control before bringing the parts into the house.
The majority of time and focus at this point has been on the 82.
The cylinder work turned out better than anticipated. The cylinder had previously been over-bored .020, and after clean-up, a light hone and measurements, discovered that the cylinder was still within wear limits and surprisingly straight. Needless to say, the piston was toast.
From my previous push on the 1984 CR, I had that cylinder bore pushed out twenty-thousands and had a new Wiseco piston ready and waiting. So, in addition to the book spec's, I had a prepped .020 cylinder and piston for measurement verifications against the 82 cylinder. I would dearly love and prefer to send the cylinders out and have them nikasil plated and see if it's possible to get them back to stock bore, but at $355 per cylinder to do that, it will eat up too much cash at this point in the rebuilds. Have to push off to a later date for that.
The crankshaft was my next big worry but once again, pleasantly surprised. Connecting rod measurements checked fine, and then the main bearing measurements showed a nice snug interference fit on the clutch side, but the flywheel side had a semi snug slip fit and measured .001 looser than the other side. (this was with using the new Honda OEM crank bearings). After studying on it for some time, further reading in the manual, and then internet read-up and You Tube, I finally decided that its close enough that Loctite 680 will adequately secure the bearing to the crank.
Following all of this came clean, clean and more cleaning. Got new bearings, seals and gaskets, which I pressed the bearings in today, along with flat surface sanding the faces of the case halves. Cylinder hardware and case dow pins are ordered and on the way. All of the tranny parts look good so far as well. Still need to chase bolt and screw threads and dow pin sockets. Getting closer to reassembly and will immediately open up the 84 afterward. The plan is to have both engines done, on the bench and ready to go.
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