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Message: [QUOTE="Wayne, post: 1091319, member: 863"] Oh, yeah! you should check out the muffler bearings he paid for :toast: I'll send you your cut for the idea. [ATTACH=full]143741[/ATTACH] Just give me your paypal account info, and I'll send it right over LOL We actually had the rotating assembly rebalanced after it came "balanced", or so we presume, since no weight removal marks were on the pistons, wrist pins, or rods, and there was no indication of how each of them should be paired to match to get them as close as possible, but the crank was ground on. After weighing 2 of the carrillo rods, and finding an 8 gram discrepancy on the first 2 we measured, we decided it was a good idea. I can tell you there was a very noticable increase in effort to final torque the new bolts compared to the ones I used to inspect bearing clearance. You call new TTY bolts "random". I call it cheap insurance, and common sense. If main studs were available then of course we wouldn't bother, but then we'd run into block distortion issues, which are extra sensitive in "crush" main bearing without tangs. In a perfect world we'd install the unavailable girdle with main studs after a fully torqued line hone, and using tanged bearings, but I don't see all of that stuff available at the moment. Perhaps it makes sense to you to re-use bolts that are stretched, re-stretching them even more incrementally for each cycle. This is especially a worth while expense IMO because this would have been the 2nd complete install cycle counting the factory original assembly of the short block. ...but that's where we apparently differ in opinion. [/QUOTE]