Mopar 383 Connecting Rods

[Rich Biebel]

Originally Posted by HP HUNTER

You have two rods your honing..........theres .0025 to hone to size on both rods, one rod has .0005 taper the other has .0007 taper. How do you set these two rods up on the already trued mandrel?

I never honed pairs of rods and did one at a time.
Focused on the one in my hand and not trying to juggle 2 and work out the taper(s) using two.

Is it better to use the 2 rod method.....?
I don't know its been nearly 30 years since I left the engine machining world and I'm not returning anytime soon. No one in the shop I worked at used the 2 rod method.

If its better I missed the memo back around 1970 something....lol

There is and always was an endless string of potentially poorly OEM machined items in an engine. Starting with the block itself and right on down the line.
Correcting or attempting to correct much of it would be very difficult if not impossible sometimes.

Engine machining has definitely advanced a lot with better machines and fixturing and mostly parts....

I was in a shop yesterday.....Didn't look all that different than where I worked 30 years ago...….Mostly Older machines, heads, blocks and stuff everywhere.....

2 Jaguar heads, A complete out of car Mopar Poly engine and a flat head Ford block just a few things I spotted.....