Posted by Charlie (IP: 171.214.172.164) on March 22, 2000 at 19:44:09:
In Reply to: Ongoing 302 rebuild... posted by Brian on March 22, 2000 at 08:50:47:
You don't need new ones but you should have the caps align honed. Any competent machine shop can do it. -CP
: Seems I've been at this now for six months, but, only since January. I finally had time to finish tearing down my 302 last night. Previous owner said the lower end was rebuilt, now 30k miles ago. Somehow I doubt this. After inspecting the main and rod bearings, only three bearing halves did not have uneven wear or show copper. This is really not a big deal as I have a complete .020 crank kit for the engine. However, someone threw a monkey wrench in earlier this week. A co-worker said that I would have to get new main caps because the crank in the kit had been turned. Is this true? I thought that the difference in was made up in bearing size/thickness. This is my first rebuild and this bit of info confused me. Any help is, as always, appreciated.
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: Thanks,
: Brian