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93 RM250 Complete Rebuild
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<blockquote data-quote="ossagp" data-source="post: 180085" data-attributes="member: 1650"><p>I think lots of people set them by the length of the pin. they press until it is flush and never check anything else. most manuals show someone with the feeler gauges in place as you press together. if you true it in a lathe they almost seem to grow together though, so check to make sure they don't tighten up. it is hard to believe you can over tighten the center and cause flex, but you can. the longer the stroke, the more likely that is to happen. you turn the crank over and the halves can flex and move. probably happens on cranks that have been apart a few times. i have seen shops press them back and forth a few times, or in the worst cases you can see where they just used a push pin and shoved the pin through both sides either to part them or to put them back together and that makes the sides loose in many cases. </p><p></p><p>do a few and you will be good to go on anything other than the honda "sheet metal" cranks. initial lining them up looked like a man who traded a violin for a crankshaft.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ossagp, post: 180085, member: 1650"] I think lots of people set them by the length of the pin. they press until it is flush and never check anything else. most manuals show someone with the feeler gauges in place as you press together. if you true it in a lathe they almost seem to grow together though, so check to make sure they don't tighten up. it is hard to believe you can over tighten the center and cause flex, but you can. the longer the stroke, the more likely that is to happen. you turn the crank over and the halves can flex and move. probably happens on cranks that have been apart a few times. i have seen shops press them back and forth a few times, or in the worst cases you can see where they just used a push pin and shoved the pin through both sides either to part them or to put them back together and that makes the sides loose in many cases. do a few and you will be good to go on anything other than the honda "sheet metal" cranks. initial lining them up looked like a man who traded a violin for a crankshaft. [/QUOTE]
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