[TR] Opening Up Connecting Rod Oil Passages

Don Hiscock don.hiscock at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 08:04:49 MST 2016


I'd probably soak them in Evapo-Rust for a few days or a week before doing
anything, to see how bad (or good) they are under the corrosion.

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Bill Brewer <billbrewer59 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>      So I am rebuilding a Standard Vanguard engine for a 1953 Morgan Plus
> 4. The connecting rods have been laying on a shed floor for decades. They
> cleaned up nicely, but the oiling hole through the connecting rod to the
> small end bushings were all rusted solid. I made a tool out of a piece of
> 1/8 brass welding rod. I pounded the end flat, like a screwdriver, and
> pounded it in while turning with a small Vise-grips. It got the hole opened
> and rust poured out. The hole is about 0.180” diameter. I’ve been trying to
> find a long 3/16ths tube brush (like a pipe cleaner) to clean them out
> better, but no one makes one long enough. The brush needs to be about 5”
> long and the longest that McMaster Carr has is 3”. I could pull the small
> end bushings out and go at it from both ends, but the bushings in there fit
> the wrist pins perfectly and I would rather not mess them up if I can help
> it.
>
>      I have been considering buying a 12” long 3/16ths (.188”) drill bit
> and running that through. It might open up the hole a little bit, which
> might not be a bad thing.
>
>
>
> http://www.truevalue.com/product/3-16-x-12-In-High-
> Speed-Split-Point-Steel-Drill-Bit/74680.uts
>
>
>
>      Has anybody else been here? How did you get by this?
>
>      TIA,
>
>
>
>      Bill Brewer
>
>      Tehachapi, CA
>
>
>
>
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