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Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton
The lack of bearing relief at the radius of the crank effectively reduces oil flow greatly |
ok, now that, upon reflection, makes a lot of sense. my thoughts on that up til now was it was acting like 8 little brakes dragging on my rods from side load. effectively might have been lessening the measured side clearance when running against the crank throw. i still have to measure bearing clearance to journal, the non-uniformity of the wear pattern leads me to think there was too much clearance causing an oblong bearing.
thoughts?.....
(JE custom forged)
piston to wall clearance seems fine at .004-.0045 and the other piston skirts look right for 6500 miles