Type 4 rebuild timeline

whc03grady · Post by **whc03grady** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 8:54 pm

So how long are we talking to rebuild a Type IV engine? Assuming an intact bottom end?

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:44 am

Have parts and know how, you can complete it in a weekend.

For normal, but motivated people...a couple of months.

BellePlaine · Post by **BellePlaine** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:37 am

Pray for easy-sailin' but plan on set-backs.

dhoch14 · Post by **dhoch14** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:47 am

took me a whole summer aka 3 months.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Thu Mar 25, 2010 12:14 pm

Took me 3 months for the whole works, type1. It's not the kind of thing you want to rush. It will probably take over your life anyway.

Bleyseng · Post by **Bleyseng** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:52 am

whc03grady wrote:So how long are we talking to rebuild a Type IV engine? Assuming an intact bottom end?

For me its about 2 months and most of that time is getting rods, heads, parts , etc sent out for machining etc.
Assembly time is a week maybe.... but you have to have all the parts sitting there.

Oregon72 · Post by **Oregon72** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 8:36 am

Full rebuild took me 4 months, but I also did a lot of other stuff like repair battery tray, clean and repaint engine compartment. Like Geoff, I also had some waiting time for machine work and parts that took a bit of that time. One time saver I would change for next time is have tin and shroud blasted clean by a professional instead of hand scrubbing and wire-wheeling every last thing. It was a lot of fun.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:38 am

Takes me two weeks. Two days disassembly with typical parts needed ordered at the end of the second day. Cleaning takes me a good three days with another parts order at the end of this closer investigation. I paint/detail during parts delivery window that's about a week in the middle. Lower end build takes a day of fastidious double-checking, long block is completed by end of second day, ancilliaries by end of third day, and into the car.
Colin

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:36 am

It's a bit quicker if life doesn't get in the way. Kids and families change the timeline.

whc03grady · Post by **whc03grady** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:33 pm

Thanks for the input, all. I'm going to optimistically allow 6 weeks and pessimistically allow 6 years. I'll have "whc03grady's rebuild" thread up as soon as I get going.

Post by **Amskeptic** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:38 pm

whc03grady wrote:Thanks for the input, all. I'm going to optimistically allow 6 weeks and pessimistically allow 6 years. I'll have "whc03grady's rebuild" thread up as soon as I get going.

That seems prudent. I think we can shorten it up a year or so.
Colin

fancy pants · Post by **fancy pants** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:30 am

So far I am on 7 months and haven't started putting it back together yet! I keep finding other things to distract me...

Westy78 · Post by **Westy78** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:42 am

I think I hold the local record at around two years. Extenuating circumstances applied.

poptop tom · Post by **poptop tom** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:14 am

Westy78 wrote:I think I hold the local record at around two years. Extenuating circumstances applied.

LOL. That's nothing Jasan!

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:15 am

poptop tom wrote:
Westy78 wrote:I think I hold the local record at around two years. Extenuating circumstances applied.
LOL. That's nothing Jasan!

I was going to say...2 years isn't bad.

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