I would not be nearly as interested in potential hp gain or ability to rev.
What I'm interested in is making available to the Triumph community some
high quality rods at a fraction of the cost of Carillos.
At 10:01 AM 8/26/2004, mordy dunst/ gasket works wrote:
>Granted, the TR tractor motor has a stout three main crank.. it's ability to
>tolorate what we through at it is really amazing. But, the key here is
>three mains. I am not convinced that decreasing the rod jo diam is a good
>thing. It would seem that the advantage is reduced bearing speed but,
>disadvantage in increasing the unit bearing load? So, if our cranks are
>made with smaller rod journals will this be a problem in three Main
>cranks? -especially with flex harmonics?.
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>But, if the bottom end of the rod is narrowed the crank journal would either
>have to be welded up or spaced would this then distribute the load and
>mitigate against this increased load?
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>M. Dunst
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