Thanks again guys. Well, I started the teardown of the K301 tonight. Finally got a good puller from work. I stated before that my crank/rod journal is egg shaped from 1.500 to 1.489 and a few in between in differrent spots. I talked to the machine shop near my house and he said he will try to grind it .010" but thinks it will probably be .020" undersized when its said and done and I did find a few places that sell a .020" rod so I think I will be good. Wont order anything until I know of course.
Here are a couple pics of tonight mainly with just pulling off the fan and bearing retainer. I ran into a snag and need to read up on the manual or get some ideas from you because I cant get the crank to come out because the front bearing hits the cam gear on its way out. I drove out the inner cam mounting rod and moved the cam over but the bearing will still not clear? I have the cam gear cover off, points out, and inner shaft of cam out but no dice. I tried to hold the bearing to the case with a c clamp and just get the crank to come out of the bearing but it wont even budge that way, pressed on big time and I thought it would be. Guess I have to do something different to get it out. Ideas?
Edit*** Manual says that crank may have to pressed out but I still dont get it? It looks to me that it will take a lot of force to press the crank through the bearing if the bearing contacts the cam gear. It will only be hitting it on one side and Im afraid it will damge/bend/break the gear? Am I worrying too much about this and should just let it rip in the press?
Obviously I know that the rod and piston have to come out first before the crank comes out but as you can see the front bearing (top) will contact the cam gear as it comes out and it does, ends up stopping, and I'm a little nervous that I will damage the cam gear. (This picture BTW is before I removed the inner cam shaft/rod and moved the cam over but it wont go far enough over to clear
