JasonS
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It'd be great if you could quantify the strength improvement of your rod bolt kit and include a one-piece pan gasket. Should sell itself.
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Will this require that the big end be resized or is this a remove and replace?A new rod bolt replacement kit.
I would think they would hot forge the blank, centerless grind it then roll the threads. Not as labor intesive as standing by a cnc continually.The killer deal with this bolt is its a "stepped" bolt.. the threads are a larger diameter then the bolt.. there is a TON of work to make one... My friend runs he 2ed shift of a place that makes PTO shafts, motor shafts, all that kind stuff and he said it would take a CNC a while to make one bolt. He said the set up time would not be bad, would be one reset per bolt. But there would be a lot of man hours. you would have to man the CNC 100% and not leave it. By the time you walked away and started something else it would be time for the reset.
We have a lot of bolts custom made for us by ARP. You generally need to make at least a couple thousand to get the price to a reasonable point.
is it a non-standard thread?
Patracy, would you be willing to share the specs with me?
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