Re: Bad rod bearing
Werner, do you mean "grind the caps" not the shells? If you grind the shells you will remove the bearing crush.
My bearing clearance was also 0.002 inch with the Snyder's shells. I faced off 0.0005 inches to get a clearance of 0.0015 and I did not reduce the shells, so they ended up with half a thou more crush. Without looking it up I think they started at 0.002 inch crush, measured in the standard way by inserting only one bolt in the con rod and feeling the gap left on the unbolted side with slip gauges.
Engine has done many thousands of miles like this and runs really well.
SAJ in NZ
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