I bought Crower rods for my 1500 spit in part because they could put 5/16
bolts in them while Carillo could not. only 1/4. So far so good.
> From: "Brad Kahler" <brad.kahler@141.com>
> Reply-To: "Brad Kahler" <brad.kahler@141.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:14:50 -0500
> To: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>, fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Rods?
>
> Jack,
>
> We bought Pauter rods for Susan's spitfire. Nice looking and seem to be
> working just fine in the car. The major issue we had with them is on one
> of the rods they stamped the cap and the rod, then turned the cap around,
> machine it and then turned the cap around again and shipped the rod to
> us. When Ed was assembling the engine he found this out. He found that
> by switching the cap around everything was fine but leaving it on the way
> it was stamped and he couldn't get the crank to turn. He then sent the
> rod out to be bored with the cap on correctly. That to me seems like a
> pretty big manufacturing mistake.
>
> Even so, I'd still buy them for my TR3 if for no other reason than cost.
>
>
> Brad
>
>
> On 16 Aug 2005 at 11:00, Jack W. Drews wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried the rods made by companies other than Carillo?
>>
>> Opinions and comments?
>>
>> uncle jack
>>
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