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apbellamy

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Rotherham, South Yorkshire

23rd Oct, 2009 at 10:22:20am

I've had the van's crank balanced this week. I took two cranks in with me, so that they could use the best (one was fooked anyway as it turned out...) and was quite surprised by the differences.

The van's original crank came from a 1984 Metro, so one of the really early A+ ones. Didn't need much balancing at all. The engineer said it looked to be fairly well done to start with.

The other came form an 89 MG Metro and was in his words 'massivly' out of balance and needed masses taking of it to get it anything like balanced.

Is this typical of the Rover parts bin lottery or did they just cut the quality of the cranks as they got later...

On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it

*hehe!*

Sprocket

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23rd Oct, 2009 at 10:35:43am

never noticed

The brand new Rover 'MPi' crank I bought was fairly well balanced for a standard part.

I have however found balance to change with use, which is odd. We balanced my already
balanced MED crank (cough) to race tollerences, I used it for a year in the 1400. It was then checked and found to be out of balance. Fuck knows what it will be like now after the bearing failure and regrind. I just threw it back in the engine lol

On 26th Oct, 2004 TurboDave16v said:
 Is it A-Series only? I think it should be...
So when some joey comes on here about how his 16v turbo vauxhall is great compared to ours, he can be given the 'bird'...


On 26th Oct, 2004 Tom Fenton said:
Yep I agree with TD........

apbellamy

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Rotherham, South Yorkshire

23rd Oct, 2009 at 10:41:17am

That's interesting. The engine that the 'bad' crank came from had been in a car with an owner that wasn't mechanically sypathetic. Or mechanically compentant for that matter! When he pulled the flywheel, he didn't bother with the little spacer and managed to run the puller's bolt 3 or 4 threads down the flywheel bolt hole.

The 'good' crank came out of a metro that had been owned by a little old lady who hardly used it...

On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it

*hehe!*

John

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23rd Oct, 2009 at 11:20:32am

On 23rd Oct, 2009 apbellamy said:
The 'good' crank came out of a metro that had been owned by a little old lady who hardly used it...


Then subsequently abused by us to within an inch of its life on a banger rally and at avon park.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.
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