Crank turning question

oldkimmer said
I have taken many cranks to the machine shop and every single time the machinist said they needed to be turned. Weather they were out of round or the journals were tapered. I once took a brand new Ed Hamburger crank to be polished just to get alittle more bearing clearance. When I came back to pick it up they had turned the crank undersize. I said wtf, he said it was out of spec. Kinda makes me wonder. Kim. I should state that it was a few different machine shops over the years.

That is kinda what I was thinking also lol

Max1196 said
Out of the bag, what I see is a crank that may have been worked on previously. Factory oil hole chamfers aren't that big, has it been polished previously, is it under size already? Look on the back side of the bearing shell and see if there's any undersize #'s. It needs to be measured to give you a proper answer. If it is still "standard", the limited info from just the pictures indicate .001 thou unders could clean it up.

This engine has never been apart I pulled it from a one owner car that had 80k miles (or 180k) but it was the original owner it was an older lady she had wrecked it and broke the control arm and parked it. Bought the whole car for 500 pulled the engine and transmission and sold the car for scrap. And the bearing are standard size.