My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

If I'm pulling the main bearings to wash out the passages, I might as well lift the crank out of the way, and if I need to do that, I might as well pull my new crank before any more machining. If apex wasn't sold out, I would have already purchased the tool at this point. It's NOT going back to the place that did this, and at the least, I better get a refund + cost of wasted shims.

When I dropped the first liner in (#6 as I was working backwards), I ran the gauge on a couple spots, and it was .013-.014. When it was compressed, then everything went to hell. Granted, my homemade press is not equal to the one you use - I can side load pretty easily if I'm not careful lining up my plate, but even in that case, I should see discrepancies showing high readings in spots and the lowest reading I should see would be .014 if it was cut correctly, right?