[Fot] Proceedure for checking rod bearing clearances

[toodamnfunky at comcast.net]

FoT 

With the rods I have, in order to seperate the caps I have to back out the bolts 

a few turns and tap the bolts with a soft mallet to seperate them. 

I use plastigauge to check my main clearances but it seems that tapping 

on the rod bolts may tend to affect a plastigauge measurements on the rod 

journals. I'd appreciate any feedback on checking rod clearances. 

Thanks as always, 

jim g