2.5 mm end play in the crank is a bad, bad thing. It should be a few
thousandths of an inch, or a tenth or two of a mm of movement. If
you have 2.5 mm of movement you likely have no thrust washers left at
all and possibly have a ruined block and crankshaft.
Tony Drews
At 08:35 PM 12/30/2013, John Summers wrote:
>Ok all you Triumphista's. I finally got around to doing the test where you
>check how much wear you have on your thrust bearings, today. There WAS play
>in the crankshaft. At one extreme it was 27.7mm
>Pushed back in the
>measurement was 25.2mm. According to my math,,,the difference is 2,5mm How
>bad/good is that? I have fretted over this day for fifteen years. I recently
>received EVERY SIZE thrust washer sold by Rimmer Bros. I have a pair called
>"Standard", whatever that is. The next size says +5, the next reads +10 and
>the last pair reads +15. Any clues about what those translate into? I guess
>I pull out my digital caliper and measure, huh? Opinions are welcomed.
>Also
>tonight my'98 Maxima was acting weird like the battery was going bad. That is
>commonplace here in hell - Florida. Took it to NAPA where I bought the
>battery, got it tested and it had a bad cell so I replace it with the next
>higher quality battery. Turn the ignition - nothing. We played around with
>different batteries for an hour and the starter wouldn't even click. Bad
>starter? Bad solenoid ? Bad starter ground? Tomorrow is the 31st and I
>figured nobody would want to spend the time to troubleshoot until Thursday or
>Friday, if that, so I had it tows to my driveway. Good thing the grocery and
>pharmacy are only a mile away, huh? Opinions?
>
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