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Anyone? Maybe @hooser could you help shed some light on this pretty please?

Hey guys, Am hoping that this is a nice easy one that someone who's done this can chime in and solve it. Am just in the process of installing a set of the Shell/JE pistons from Hoos and just wanted to confirm the order of the 1st and second rings. One has a chamfer/bevel on the inner upper edge...

Cool thanks for the tips Signal, will be sure to tack and check before getting carried away! I felt that it pressed apart easily (a few tonne only), so am going to weld it for peace of mind. Its not a race engine but should have a good bit more power than a stock engine when all said and done...

Hey guys, A very delayed response but I finally got a chance to finish this thing off! Signal - you were 100% right and I was overthinking things, I pressed the flywheels together slightly opposite the pin and managed to get the high point out. Managed to get one side down to about 0.015mm and...

Hi Bikefreakjon, Thanks for the reply. I'm measuring runout at the specified locations as per the factory manual which is slightly outboard of the outer bearing journals. I haven't measured runout on the flywheels at all. I have only measured across the machined surfaces on the flywheel to...

Hey Signal and Jonesey, Thanks again to both of you for the replies! Maybe you are right and I'm overthinking this all. We had a parallel issue with the drive side of the flywheels and we rectified this exactly as you both mentioned. However before we did that we measured across the machined...

Jan P Thanks for the reply, You are exactly right- hammering (carefully) is how you remove twist from a crank to bring it into true. However unfortunately this isn't the issue I'm having - mine is suffering from one (or both) of the inner flywheels not sitting parallel which is a little more...

Hi Signal, Thanks very much for your comprehensive reply! I did use V blocks for determining runout - see attached pic below, only difference is I clamped the bearings into the V block for a bit more rigidity. I totally understand when you refer to concentricity and parallel. The issue I am...

Hi guys, So I'm hoping that someone has seen this issue before can help me out as I'm scratching my head a little and would be keen to hear what people have to say before I tear my rebuilt crank apart again.... So a bit of background, I'm building a new engine to go into a project bike I'm...