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.
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.
ReplyDeleteBuy 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 ?
ReplyDeleteNo qualms with Carillo or S&S or Jims. Good stuff !
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