Hone big end of rod.... surface rust
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Hone big end of rod.... surface rust I’ve got an ls1 that turned a bearing and destroyed 2 rods and the crank. I bought a reman crank and have extra rods but my extra rods have some surface rust. Would it be a bad idea to media blast (glass and low air pressure) the rust off and ever so lightly run a flex hone through the big end of the rod or should I look at finding 2 more rods that haven’t drawn moisture.
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I’ve got an ls1 that turned a bearing and destroyed 2 rods and the crank. I bought a reman crank and have extra rods but my extra rods have some surface rust. Would it be a bad idea to media blast (glass and low air pressure) the rust off and ever so lightly run a flex hone through the big end of the rod or should I look at finding 2 more rods that haven’t drawn moisture.
That’s what any shop would do with them, so I’d say go for it. Make sure you clean them....and everything else....very well. It can be hard sometimes to get the glass media off of parts. It has a way of imbedding from time to time.
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I’ll get pictures a little later today. I blasted them and took 400 grit through it by hand. One rod has some small pits you can’t really feel. The other 2 I blasted looked good.
