changing rod bolts?

Adger Smith · 04-15-2012, 07:26 PM

You can just put them in if you are a real good gambler. Might work, might not. I've tried it for tight A** customers that wanted rod bolts and didn't want to resize. When I checked the rods I generally found one or more rods in the set will have the cap off set from the rod body after the bolts are put in. ARP says to resize them. Remember your dealing with .0001's on cap and rod alignment.... and bolts that would have to be on center JUST like the ones you took out.
My suggestion is forget about better bolts until you are in a position to resize the rods. What is worse??? The posibility that a bolt will come apart or puting in the bolts knowing that you need to size the rods when you do it??
If you do decide to put in the bolts without resizing the rods
I hope you have a loaded set of dice when your taking that gamble.

04-15-2012, 07:26 PM	#2
Adger Smith VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Texarkana Ark/TX Posts: 2,446 Likes: 575 Liked 880 Times in 311 Posts	Re: changing rod bolts? You can just put them in if you are a real good gambler. Might work, might not. I've tried it for tight A** customers that wanted rod bolts and didn't want to resize. When I checked the rods I generally found one or more rods in the set will have the cap off set from the rod body after the bolts are put in. ARP says to resize them. Remember your dealing with .0001's on cap and rod alignment.... and bolts that would have to be on center JUST like the ones you took out. My suggestion is forget about better bolts until you are in a position to resize the rods. What is worse??? The posibility that a bolt will come apart or puting in the bolts knowing that you need to size the rods when you do it?? If you do decide to put in the bolts without resizing the rods I hope you have a loaded set of dice when your taking that gamble. __________________ Adger Smith (Former SS) Last edited by Adger Smith; 04-15-2012 at 07:28 PM. Reason: sp