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Its pretty well known among engine builders that some SCAT and EAGLE Windsor-stroker cranks have undersized noses as well as missing the Cleveland shoulder behind the crank timing sprocket. This not only causes the crank sprocket to be loose, it negates the tight fit that a harmonic balancer is supposed to have on the crank nose. Feel free to return any crank thats loose upon receipt; one builder told me some 80% of these Chinese strokers get returned to SCAT or Eagle for machining errors....Oh, and Lock-tite won't correct metal missing from the nose, but welding and remachining correctly will fix the problem. 'Course, then you have a cost equal to a real racing crank.