INSTALLATION
1. Install the connecting rod bolt guide hose over rod bolt threads.
2. Lightly coat pistons, rings and cylinder walls with light engine oil. Depression on top of piston to be assembled toward outside of engine.
3. Install each connecting rod and piston assembly in its respective bore. Install with connecting rod bearing tang slots on side opposite camshaft. Use Tool J-8037 to compress the rings. Guide the connecting rod into place on the crankshaft journal. Use a hammer handle and light blows to install the piston into the bore. Hold the ring compressor firmly against the cylinder block until all piston rings have entered the cylinder bore.
4. Install the bearing caps and torque nuts to specifications 65 N.m. (45 ft. lbs.). Be sure to install new pistons in the cylinders for which they were fitted and used pistons in the cylinder from which they were removed. Each connecting rod and bearing cap should be marked, beginning at the front of the engine. Cylinders 1, 3, 5 and 7 in the left bank and, 2, 4, 6 and 8 in the right bank. The numbers on the connecting rod and bearing cap must be on the same side when installed in the cylinder bore. If a connecting rod is ever transposed from one block or cylinder to another, new bearings should be fitted and the connecting rod should be numbered to correspond with the new cylinder number.
