Resumen

¿Qué se hace si la galga de plástico se afila al medir los cojinetes de biela? Bueno, esta es una situación un poco complicada porque no podemos hacer nada personalmente. Lo que tendremos que hacer entonces es llevar los componentes a nuestro taller mecánico para que lo corrijan.

00:00 - Jay has asked, what do you do if there is taper on the plastigauge when measuring the rod bearings? OK well this is one of the situations that gets a little bit tricky because there's nothing we personally can do.
00:11 What we're gonna need to do then is get our components back to our engine machine shop and have them actually correct that.
00:18 So this may involve grinding the crankshaft to an undersize journal size and then we would use a oversize bearing set to take up that clearance and start with a fresh journal finish.
00:31 So it really depends on exactly how bad our taper is as to what we're going to do with it.
00:37 Also depends as well on exactly what our application is.
00:41 So a lot of the things that we could get away with in a relatively low power, low RPM application, with absolutely no concern whatsoever, once we start stepping up to engines that are producing maybe two, three, four times what the factory power level was, and exceeding the factory rev limit by significant margins, when we get to those sorts of engines, everything has to be absolutely perfect.
01:07 And if anything is outside of our specification it's going to need to be addressed.
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