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Went over to pick up my mailbox post from the crank shop yesterday...

We were talking about the cracks and difficulty of fixing cranks, and the cost of cranks and so on. He was telling me how if cracks run a certain way they're easy to fix and how cracks in the main tend not to do that. He got a light in his eye and said - hang on, let's check this out - grabbed the crank and went back in the shop and went to work with the die grinder. A few minutes later he called me back. It turns out the cracks aren't hidden behind a counter weight, don't look to deep and aren't going in the wrong direction. It may be repairable - he's going to do some more grinding and analysis and let me know what it looks like.

The deal's weird - the crank's not bent - it's got less that .001 runout on all journals. There's no cracks in the rod journals, yet the 3 center main journals are cracked.

I'm beginning to think that early hemi's defy all common logic.

there's a LOT of things that do that that are related to racing, Perry.

Perry, for $29.95 I have a magic Hemi wand that I sell through the Lippy Lifter co. of fine products. You simply wave it over the affected Hemi part and presto!! It doesn't do a damn thing......but makes me feel better anyway. If you still don't feel better, go get a beer. BTW, when you purchase the wand, you also get the secret words to say while passing the wand over the parts. If you can't afford the $29.95 for the deluxe kit, For $2.99 I'll send the economy kit which consists of a used paint stick and the word shaazam written on it in magic marker.

I take it thats a no.

I just went and got the beer...

out of curiosity...what kinda 1/8th mile times are ya runnin' Perry?

I can't remember off the top of my head Billy. (staying away from the track for extended periods of time is bad for your memory )

I'll look in the book this evening and let you know.