340 Rod questions

nm9stheham said
Yes, bushed for the 340s and the light rod 318's IIRC as well as the 273's.

Is the rod bearing with the wear worn even across the face of the bearing or over on one side? How does the journal look for that bearing? Pix?

If you have them all apart, I'd measure the rod center-to-center distances. With that one odd rod and the .010" variation in deck height, you could have some re-con rods in there. Ditto on the big end bores; not hard to check with the cap torqued back on, once they are all apart.

The one is only worn partly across the face. I took the "longest" and one of the "short" ones off, put them on the same wrist pin and so far don't see an obvious .010" difference but I'm not done measuring. The journal looks OK but I need to mic the diameters around the clock to make sure it isn't egg shaped and is even across. The worn one happens to be the one 645 rod in the mix but I think if it was balanced correctly it shouldn't matter. Hope to get the rest out tonight. It was too hot in the garage yesterday.