Crankshaft end play

[George Miller]

Originally Posted by forever4

Problem is if previous old time engine rebuilders reground the crank cheeks and widened the journal and just made it up with more babbitt. Then the brass insert might be a little on the small side.

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.