The DADDY of all DIY rebuild threads...
 

I've had this writeup done for a few months but I debated on whether or not to put it up publicly. There are a lot of real young, naive FC owners popping up daily and many of them dont have any mechanical experience. I thought that maybe I might do more harm than good by putting this info out there and giving false hopes to those who have no business working on a car like this.

A lot of my work is non-mechanically-inclined owners who overestimate their abilities/underestimate the job, tear the thing apart, and then bring me the pieces because they are lost or overwhelmed.

The more I think about it, I hope this writeup will serve to show people exactly how much work goes into a job like this and they will be better able to decide if it is something they can do or not.

It will also serve to shut mouths of those people who sit there and say that I cannot possibly do a thorough job for the prices I charge for rebuilds. This is a step by step documentation of an actual rebuild I performed on a customer car several months back. TO my knowledge the car is running great with several thousand miles on it at this point.

Hopefully this thread wont turn into a circus full of bullshit, so please think before you post. Also I do not expect to see this writeup being copied and put onto other websites, pasted onto other forums, etc. I am posting this here for the benefit of users on this forum but if you try to take advantage of this I will pull the writeup and have the thread deleted.

I plan to leave the link up on my server indefinitely, though it is not linked or shown anywhere on my site. I will be on hand in this thread to answer questions and respond to comments/criticism, but if things get out of hand I can always pull the file from my server, which would only serve to hurt you guys' interest, so I advise you to keep this thread free of crap posts.

There's probably a couple hundred pictures, so expect long loading times even on broadband. Dial up users might think twice before trying to view this.

Without further delay:

http://www.rotaryresurrection.com/rebuildwriteup.htm

Doesn't get anymore in depth than that.

You da man kevin. Not that I plan on trying this anytime soon, but for future reference this is awesome.

Wiki hater!

Hey man, I'm already gonna get hated on, because as they say "the game is to be sold, not told". :sad:

DAMN Kevin this is a book with in its self...


Dan

Im reading it all as we speak.

Good info :icon_tup:

very nice.. thank you, this is an amazing reference

thanks a lot :icon_tup:

Is the guy on the boards?

I think it'd be interesting to see something like this done to my car.

Great work, this is going in my bookmarks. :)

this is a god send as im just starting on my first rebuild. thanks so much.

wow bro, you are definitly a living icon in the rotory world.

Great write up! :icon_tup:

:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

Yeah, no worries, I was just whippin you shit. Great write-up!

Nice write up. :)

You might implement some scripting to block copy/paste stuff if you would really rather it not be distributed everywhere.

Thanks for putting in the effort to document this.

No such thing exists. Sorry to disappoint. If somebody wants something, they'll get it.

I could only get about half the picts.

refresh the page or wait longer...they all showed up on the computers I've tried, which is not the computer the pics were uploaded from.

could put it up as flash or raster images. Then people would have to do a TON of screen grabs to get all the info...

And you can lock images. Although, one could also just screen grab those.

Dang that's awesome. I sure hope this becomes a sticky :)

Thanks Kevin

good stuff thanks

I totally agree that many inexperienced mechanics take on more than they can chew. Think hard before jumping in... Not that it cant be done and fun!!! I bought a cheap 79 with a blown engine specifically to learn and make my mistakes, and if overhwhelmed, not too much invested. I tore it all apart and cleaned it, determined what will be replaced new; now for the intersting part, putting it back together. I wish I had read this before automatically throwing away all the springs! This writeup is definitely help in the second phase!

You can also run javascript to hide html, block right-hand clicks, print-screen feature, and copy and paste. That would knock most people out of ever copying it.