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Originally Posted by cadillac512
It may be that you have a crank that's been previously ground to different sizes on different journals...was done sometimes back when.
Terry
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Very accurate statement here, not only on an individual rod journal but sometimes an occasional cylinder bore also! (See photo below, it's just one brand of a "portable" boring bar used at the time for very this purpose)
Many of these type repairs were done with the engine still in the ride, it's how it was done back then!
Thanks, Gary in N.Y.
P.S. At one time I had the "portable" crank grinder along with the boring bar pictured here, I still own this bar, the crank grinder went a long time ago. In retrospect it wouldn't have hurt to hang on to both?? Nice conversation pieces today anyway! I have customers today have absolutely no idea what the bar was used for when I show it to them?