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Subject:Re: Connecting rod questions
From:Joshua Van Tol
Date:Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:55:42 -0600

> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Joseph Fournier wrote:
>
>> Your manual, Clymer's has been reputed to have some errors. I've
>> always found it a good second-best to Bentley and Wilson for the early
>> bays, but the cross-referencing, I think, is a good idea. You will find
>> five different specifications for some things if you check five
>> different manuals.
>
> How well I know!!!  I've got the Clymer, Bentley, Haynes and Wilson books
> and spend half my time trying to reconcile them!!
>
> Wilson, so far, has been the most accurate but it's sometimes difficult
> to pick out the comments about my engine(s) from all the rest of the
> chatter.  In many ways the Bentley is the most disapointing since it's
> not had some very "fundamental" information I've needed, e.g., crank
> journal diameters.

By gum, you're right. It has those dimensions for the Waterboxer
though. The book for the late bus also has this info. I wonder what
happened to it? A few pages lost?

Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@uswest.net