piston rod
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iv been rebuilding my engine recently, i got to the stage of puting the rods back on the crank thing is 3 of them go on and turn smoothly but one (closest to flywheel) seems very stiff in comparison with the other 3, dose this mater or is their something wrong?
(impreza 1995 uk turbo)
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to be onest, id fited them once alredy, put them in the block then realised id put two of the rods in the wrong way round so took em all off again, measurements are ok and avery piston rod mas marked for its position, will it free up after a bit or do i need to take it off again?
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sorted, as merlin siad, it seemed to be catching in a certain place, took it off, gave it a damn hard clean, okely dokely noe, pistons in ect crank turns ok now.
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I had the same with one of my rods. Took it off and there was a tiny nick in the crank journal that had raised a minute lip of metal. It ploughed the bearing shell straight away. I took the lip out with an oil stone, replaced the shells and all is well. Still to run the engine though
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