I need a machine shop to balance the weight of my rods and match big and small ends. Please point me in the right direction as far as a shop, I will gladly pay shipping both ways to get this done right. My local shop doesn't do this so I'm looking elsewhere.

Rods are Eagle H-beams that are a total of 10g apart. If pistons, rods, crank, and flywheel are required even better. I'll pay every penny.

 

Most machine shops shoukd be able to do this, get your whole rotating assembly balanced not juat the rods.

 

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Everywhere local to me doesn't do it. I'm willing to ship everything to a machine shop that will.

 

how did your rods get that far apart in weight? realize a nickel weighs five grams. trying to remove ten grams of weight from one or three rods is not advisable.

rod manufactures make large batches of rods. then they weigh them and group them together so little if any material is needed to be removed. sounds like you are using a mismatching set of rods.

 

The rods came in an engine that Top Level Performance built and the thrust washer were installed backwards destroying the crank and all bearing during cranking the motor so nothing surprises me at this point.

I found shop that has built DSMs for 14 years fairly local to me to do the balancing.

 

We've been through this. This motor was sold to you over a year ago. And apparently, you just now decided to crank it. I saw pictures of the damage. At first you claim you cranked it by hand and the damage happened. (the pictures are of a toasted bearing from a trashed motor, which looks like it was beaten hell, which could have been any motor). It is VERY impressive that you where able to misbalance the rods for having A: Cranked it by hand or B: having just installed the motor It looks as if that motor was installed and ran hard for about a year, not just cranked by hand, unless you're the hulk or a professional arm wrestler.

If upon receiving the block, you installed it and it spun a bearing, we'd have no problem paying for shipping to and back, with a replacement. These things happen, and we're proud to stand by our work.


Good luck with your build.

 

Yes, I took a long time after receiving the block to get the parts I wanted and find time to do the install. I never claimed to have damaged the motor by hand and everyone that read my thread on the matter could confirm that. The damage was from cranking the motor, it never was started. And those pics were in fact the motor that was sold to me, the fact that the crank bent put a ton of pressure on the rod and main bearings on the tranny side of the motor which was the side that the thrust washer failed causing those bearing to be crushed. Sure, there's no real proof that's the motor I purchased but I'm not gonna post up a thread about it for no reason.