28-11-2018, 01:50 PM
(28-11-2018, 01:12 PM)Colin Wilks Wrote: I always steer clear of religion and politics, but as far as the white metalling goes I have my rods booked in with Ian Burlngham at Malton, so I think I'm in safe hands.Colin, Nippy rod small ends are not bushed, you would have to machine them either way,to fit bushes, or oversize pins.
Zetomagtneto said "Check small ends for wear, as Bob Foreman says there is so little material it makes it difficult, or perhaps inadvisable to bush them". I think Bob was meaning it was inadvisable to address wear by machining the little ends oversize to fit oversize pins.
I am a bit foxed foxed here. I haven't got the engine out of the car yet so I haven't seen the rods, but being fully floating gudgeon pins I had imagined the little ends would be bushed anyway, and so any wear could be addressed by renewing the bushes, always assuming the rods are otherwise sound?
If worn You could try honing them to 13mm which is only .012” oversize and use 13mm pins.You would need to get the pistons remachines as well.To be honest if they are worn probably not worth the faff/risk of saving them
As you have not stripped the engine yet you might find they are fine.