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Most assume that buying a set of bearing inserts and installing them is what you do -- WRONG -- a real shop mikes every journal comes up with the numbers than installs a set of susposetoo fit bearings and uses a bore gague to measure that - the number between them is the ( rod - main ) clearence -- the import stuff is at best all over the place the reason cranks are $200 / $3000 -- inserts can be bought in an over size = undersize .001 .002 like that and mixing gives you .0005 more or less clearence BUT you have to have good tools for this and know what your doing -- and in my shop we almost all the time send new cranks back out to a crank shop and have them finesse the journals to the spec we send them so clearences are correct -- most think expensive shops are stuffing their pockets with money when on real side it is all the extra time and effort it takes to make it right the first time you only get what it is you pay for -- jz
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