Rods look tight in the side clearance fix that first before you do anything should be some movement of the rod side to side or it will cook the Babbitt and lock up running and old type splash oiler too tightly ain't gunna end well .
@@Feds-Restoration all good mate I know it's not a late model but things like to grow when they heat up, side clearance on high speed engines can easily reach 0.015 typical ,you want a wedge of oil to spread across that big bearing surface and being splash extremely tight clearance can make that difficult to achieve, if unsure have a look in a machinist handbook pretty sure they have info on Babbitt in those , there's plenty of info out there, so if your unsure just go on the patient plan ,looks like a great project .ps too keep an eye on the crank radius to bearing fit a lot of times that sharp edge on the bearing can grip the crank and mess up clearancing.
Rods look tight in the side clearance fix that first before you do anything should be some movement of the rod side to side or it will cook the Babbitt and lock up running and old type splash oiler too tightly ain't gunna end well .
I'm sitting at .001 to .002 I will take it up to .003. Thank you for the advice
@@Feds-Restoration all good mate I know it's not a late model but things like to grow when they heat up, side clearance on high speed engines can easily reach 0.015 typical ,you want a wedge of oil to spread across that big bearing surface and being splash extremely tight clearance can make that difficult to achieve, if unsure have a look in a machinist handbook pretty sure they have info on Babbitt in those , there's plenty of info out there, so if your unsure just go on the patient plan ,looks like a great project .ps too keep an eye on the crank radius to bearing fit a lot of times that sharp edge on the bearing can grip the crank and mess up clearancing.
I poured lots of rods blocks and bearing!, I hate to say !, but that looks like a SHIT JOB I'll throw that in the scrap bin