Crankshaft end play

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Originally Posted by George Miller

That is true, it is alsays a crap shoot on these engines. I run into problems all the time where the guy before put the crank in the wrong location. Some guys locate off the old main bores.

We had a block not long ago that had cylinders were bored .020 over. We though this is going to be a good one. The only problem was they were bored on a angle. We only had to go to .080 over to clean it up.

George,
See the note in the lower left. That rearmain bolt hole and the one on the front main were the primary datums for all the crank alignment, cylinder bores, stud hole locations, etc.