Rebuilding Rods . . .
This process sounds easy - but, it's more difficult than it looks. One problem is that aftermarket rod races are not consistent anymore. ODs too big, IDs too small - varying hardness and varying widths. On the female rod, you want the races flush, but they are all too wide, so we have to surface-grind the outside or it will wear into the flywheel thrust washers. Wrist pin bushings are way undersize . . don't they have any quality control in Taiwan ? You can take a NOS Harley part and it fits with little or no modifications. Say what you want about Harley-Davidson . . . but, they had pretty damn good QC at the factory in the 1920s thru 1960s . . . then people got greedy and looked at the bottom line all the time.
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No there isn't any quality control, and if the average user factored in cost of said imported item and cost to make it usable, a quality made item isn't that much more expensive. Burn's my ass.
Buy good stuff once and the money is never a consideration again, the fact so many old hogglies are still out and about is testament to the QC issue . . . does the same law of inconsistency apply to stuff like Carillo rods and S+S stuff Noot ?
No qualms with Carillo or S&S or Jims. Good stuff !
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