sizemoremk
Registered User
When the engine is balanced, are the rods/pistons balanced to a particular journal/bore position?
I ask becasue I had a balanced rotating assembley matched to a fresh block and the rods/piston have now been mixed up.
I labeled the rods/pistons when I took everything to the machine shop, and the machinist was satisfied that the assembly was balanced because each rod/piston was withing 2.5 grams on his scale, (I watched him do this). He showed me where things had been ground off, and the marks on the crank, etc; so he was satisfied it had een balanced.
I picked up the pistons from the machine shop and the labels I had on the rods/pistons had been removed form several of them.
Should I be worried?
It seems like it shoud be OK if they are all balanced the same, but I usually put everything in the spot I took it out of. This shop also threw my valvetrain in a box and that worried me, but I guess if a valvejob will be done I'm OK... A chevy guy I work with said that was OK so long as a valvejob is being done, but I was kinda surprised at this....
Thanks guys!
I ask becasue I had a balanced rotating assembley matched to a fresh block and the rods/piston have now been mixed up.
I labeled the rods/pistons when I took everything to the machine shop, and the machinist was satisfied that the assembly was balanced because each rod/piston was withing 2.5 grams on his scale, (I watched him do this). He showed me where things had been ground off, and the marks on the crank, etc; so he was satisfied it had een balanced.
I picked up the pistons from the machine shop and the labels I had on the rods/pistons had been removed form several of them.
Should I be worried?
It seems like it shoud be OK if they are all balanced the same, but I usually put everything in the spot I took it out of. This shop also threw my valvetrain in a box and that worried me, but I guess if a valvejob will be done I'm OK... A chevy guy I work with said that was OK so long as a valvejob is being done, but I was kinda surprised at this....
Thanks guys!