Hi Trevor and All,
Shane did the actual reamin g and got .004" worked a treat.
I'm puzzled by the above
0.004 is a lot if you are talking inches would be OK if millimeters
('' usually means in.)
John
Well spotted John.
Missed a "0"
He measured it at .0004" just slightly tighter than the .0005 " minimum.
Crank spins fine so decided to leave well enough alone.
It has a fresh ground shaft so the engine should bed in the extra 0.0001" without any problems, if of course measuring with a mm micrometer & converting to inches was in fact correct.
Bike will not be ready in time for the National now as the big end bolts were wrong.
He ordered the bolts before we decided to toss the rods.
Some one had bored the little end eye so large that the rod broke through the thinnest part of the eye.
Never seen that before but there was just not enough cross section left to take the load.
And we won't mention the metric or Unified bolts where they had simply cut a British thread over the top of the old one.
Gone back & changed my post.
When we get back and the fram jobs that have been ignored in order to get the bikes ready are all done then we will do a photo session & article for the Banter and put a link on this thread.