Guys, my rod bolts just came in this morning, bear with me as I don't know too much on bottom ends, But in the paperwork and torque specs it says I should have the rods re-sized, now I'm not exactly sure what this means so could someone shed some kight on this for me please and how I would go about doing it?

 

Resizing a rod meas that you have to machine a small amount of metal off the rod and the cap where they mate together. After that ,the bolts are installed and torqued in place. Because of the metal removal, the big end is now smaller than when you started. Next you resize the large end back to the factory size by honing.

 

^^^ Which you can't do with these rods because they are "cracked" rods which literally means the bore is machined with the rod whole and then broken in half so you have perfect alignment of the two halfs in the grain structure of the breakage. Just install and torque the bolts one at a time and you should be fine.

 

Exactly; and while if you had a rod that took a regular bolt and nut arrangement, where the rod has the likelihood of expanding while pressing in the bolt, you would need to have the rods resized. Whereas with a cap screw arrangement, it is not near as much of a concern. I'm not saying that it isn't still prudent to check the rods for roundness though.

 

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Exactly what I was going to attempt to explain....

 

Thanks guys, this has put a little better feeling in my gut than it was yesterday!