[SEL] Johnson Iron Horse connecting rod

[bill at antique-engines.com]

For automotive rods, you mill or grind (not with your bench grinder!!!)
the cap and rod where they join - mill at a slight angle and what happens
when you bolt it together is that it "squeezes" in the sides making the
"hole" smaller all the way around.
Then you have it bored and finished again, good as new.
Reconditioned a lot of rods that way.
(take more material off of the outside part of the rod and cap than off on
the inside next to the bore - I have the details somewhere at home, been a
long while since I've done this)

Bill


>  I have a generator with a Johnson Iron Horse on it.  The connecting rod
> has
> about .018 clearance an is pretty scored. The crank appears to be ok. I
> would
> like to try the aluminum "welding" rod I bought at Kinzers to restore
> clearance. This is the stuff sold at a stand where the guy joins cans,
> fixes castings
> etc. Anyone ever try it?
>  Mike Semanoff
>  Waterbury Connecticut
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