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Message: [QUOTE="tx246, post: 1033898, member: 23127"] buy the crank. while the rod kit is 80bucks or so, the labor to press the crank and the two trips to the machine shop eat up the difference over a new factory crank. another plus is that the clearances of a factory crank are right on. it takes quite a bit of skill to press crank halves together and get them aligned correctly. the problem with having someone do it is that you have to take them at their word as far as accuracy goes. there is no way to check a crank without vblocks. if you have any mechanical skills, splitting cases, using a factory manual, is not that hard. sometimes the hardest part is getting the flywheel off. it is handy to have acess to a press when things go together though. [/QUOTE]