Re: Does this Babbitt look ok?
Egg shaped is right. I don’t remember the number, but after so many thousandth of shim removal, it gets egg shaped. I like to do bearings by feel and sometimes Prussian blue to see the percentage of mating. You can do the cap sanding, but be aware your building a short mileage ice cream getter, not a touring engine.
I have been involved on a couple of rebuilds like this, and both times you could feel the bearings bind and then loosen over and over as the crank was rotated. Not sure why, except for out of round journals.?
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