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Old 02-19-2016, 02:43 PM
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pics of crank
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Old 02-19-2016, 04:23 PM
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You run it out of oil?

Probably a waste of time but I'd take a piece of emery cloth and clean that crank up and mic it. If you get lucky, a new rod will fix your problem.
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No I didn't run it out of oil, in fact I have 2 149's that this has happened to. I'm going to try cleaning up that crank and see what it will read.
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You can't clean that up with emry cloth. That crank is done. Rebuild time.
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You can't clean that up with emry cloth. That crank is done. Rebuild time.
I'm no mechanic and I don't like the look of the scoring on that.
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You can't clean that up with emry cloth. That crank is done. Rebuild time.
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I'm no mechanic and I don't like the look of the scoring on that.
I'm a machinist and just by looking at it, it's scored too much to clean up to factory specs.

replacement crank time
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Old 02-20-2016, 12:28 PM
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spent a little time with some emery cloth today, and the crank cleaned up pretty good, I don't know what the numbers are, or what they're supposed to be as I don't have a mic this big.
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Old 02-20-2016, 12:54 PM
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Crank looks to be too rough to use as is. It needs to have a mirror like finish.
I would take the crank to a shop that can grind cranks and let them take care of it. A good shop will check the crank in 6 places (left side-middle-right side and 90 degrees from first measurement. Kohler service manual shows how to measure the crank.

By doing what you have done may have undersize the crank journal too much to be useable.
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I just wanted to put up some pics to show how it cleaned up just using emery cloth. I rebuilt a harley shovelhead years ago, and that wasn't real difficult, hopfully this won't be either.
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Old 03-13-2016, 04:19 PM
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That crank don't look to bad. Take some crocus cloth to it and it will polish right up!
When I was a kid I ran cranks far worse looking than that in my old gokart engines
with scared up used rods! A little bit of elbow grease and it will shine like a new dime!!
Then mike it and see what you got.
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