Reply To: Bronze rod bearing clearance. Spare the rod?

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Once had a worn rod with the wrong cap and a broken rod with a correct rod c cap. Aluminum rod with bronze inlays cast into both rod and rod cap.
Rod was 0.008″ oval toward piston end of rod. I filed the mating surfaces
of rod cap and lapped assembled rod and cap on crank pin,

Sounds crude and sloppy. End result is what matters. Used Starret telescoping gage and vernier micrometer to keep check on how
things were going. One thing sure, motor will run better with a rod
than without one.
Louis

Keep in mind that the ancestors of every machine tool were made by
hand using crude tools.