The fillet radius doesn't so much increase strength as it spreads out the stresses on the crank. Without it, all of those stresses would concentrate at the sharp corner leading to eventual fatigue failure. This is why aircraft engine crankshafts have radiused journals.
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A regrind, is not a performance crank, and the OP said he was looking for narrower bearings to clear the filler.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it.
He wasn't building a nitro funny car engine.
Next time, learn to read context, and not hammer your one sided point to make yourself deeman, kid!
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This is the world according to C:
news group. He wanted his point known, disregarding the original post saying he required narrower bearings. But, there would have to have been some submerge arc welding on that crank to make the fillet narrower?
Grinding makes the fillet area wider, does it not?
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I'm rebuilding a 41 packerd 6cyl and it had a rope on the rear cap and wood for the sides and win I tighten that cap down it is real real hard to spin is this normal ?
Might want to ask on Packard forum if you have not already done so:
Wood on the sides of what? IAC, I can't imagine it should be so tight that it's real real hard to spin. But IDK.
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