Reply To: 1930 Johnson V-45

[TOM GOEPFRICH]

The rods will most likely need to be honed also. Finding a place to grind the crank shaft can be a problem as most shops doing crank shaft grinding have grinding wheels too wide to grind the V shaft. The next problem is finding over size rollers (bearings) large enough in the dia. to take up all the looseness from grinding shaft and honing rods to clean up. S rods can be used in the V . If you have an early V it’s best to find roller retainers for crank shaft bearing from a later model as the early motors used very short rollers, 3/8″ I think. Later Vs used 1/2″ rollers I believe and that’s what you want to use.