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Old 19-05-17, 03:24
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Default shims

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Originally Posted by cletrac View Post
Unless the babbit is quite bad, you can remove shims until you have the right clearance and get good results.
That's what I did with the C8 engine, had no problems with it since. You polish the journals with fine emery .
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