[charlie66]

I had 4 steel caps put on this motor 4 years ago. Since day 1 the clearances were tight to where I had to get the crank cut to fit. I've had some hard luck with the oiling over the last 3 years to where I had to change crankshafts twice. The first crank was a forged Ohio that was cross drilled. I had bad luck spun number 5 rod. Second crank was a ARMA steel crank which lasted longer but had bad luck with that as well. Never had a main bearing problem just rods. But both cranks needed to be cut on the mains to fit. Never could understand why they needed to be cut. My machinist had told me that he sized the mains to the middle of the range, so I just looked past that as being a problem. So, this time I decided to get a Molnar forged crank and when I had the same problem and being that I have 2 sets of main bearing I tried both and got the same .0012 numbers. So, I finally measured the bores and to my surprise they are small.

So now I'm going to have to get them honed, I guess. I hope that I'm not going to be charged for the line hone being that it wasn't done right in the first place, but you know how that goes ... it's been 4 years and a lot of money getting the 2 cranks cut lol..