Rod bearing replacement (Update 5)

[Peter Serwe]

I'd just add to the melange' and say that
these guys are absolutely right - this stuff
is good for the archives.  On an old atomic-4
sailboat motor, you *might* use 1500-grit
sandpaper to clean up the journals a *tiny* bit.

You can't do this on an SR20.  I wouldn't do
it on old 350 chevy stuff, even though some
backwoods engine slapper-together-and-run-
it-till-it-dies would.  Your crank is screwed,
the tolerances are nowhere near.  For what
it'll cost you in time and energy and hassle
factor, including some extra for the probability
of you having some other assembly issue,
get a JDM with 30-40k on it and have a hell
of a lot of fun!  Pull that thing out, and if it
has a high-port head, ship it to me I need
an extra to play with, I want to add a wee
bit of compression the evil way (decking)
and redo the valve seats.  (if necessary).

Buy a JDM!  Or at least buy a low port
US domestic and swap your head/intake
over.

Good luck.  Mike and George are sooo right
dead on the money - autozone vernier calipers
aren't accurate enough for doing any _real_
crank measurements.

Good luck man.
--
Peter Serwe <peter@easytree.net>
Cheaper, Faster, Better, pick any two.