Reply to "assembling con rods"

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what's up Horace? sounds as if you may have the caps on the rods flipped around or possibly mismatched on different rods?

the rod caps are located by the shank of the rod bolts, they should be a snug / tight fit. then the large end bearing bore is machined with the caps torqued in place, they're a perfect fit in the position they were in when machined. if you were to flip the cap around the other way the round would not match at the parting line and the thickness could be off side to side also. for sure the beveled chamfer will not match and the cap will ride the edge of the crank and do nasty things

Yes there needs to be a certain amount of free play with the rods torqued in place on the crank journal, this is called connecting rod side clearance

did you find out anything?

2/25/176:46 PM

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