It is often referred to as wedging.
So for lots of competition cars, you got the crank wedged and
cross-drilled.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From <Bkitterer at aol.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 8:01 PM
Subject: Crank Counterweights
> List,
>
> While at the machine shop today saw an article on 1275 cranks which
claimed
> that these cranks had to much weight around the journal center lines.
That
> this extra weight caused uneven bearing wear. It was interesting because
> they pictures of this wear was a very good match to the odd wear patterns
on
> the bearing that we just removed. The suggested solution was to remove
> counter weight material near the journals yielding a more triangular
shaped
> counter weight. Anyone heard of this or tried it??
>
> Bob and Annice
> 1960 Sprite (Mk IV indiguise)
> 1966(7) Sprite Mk III (in progress)
>
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