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Thanks for that, curiosity satisfied and knowledge which had been forgotten has been discovered again.
Tonight I have mainly been measuring con rods. I've not finished yet but at this stage I'm getting comfortable that number 3 con rod is not bent
As the small end is wider than the big end I decided to clamp the little ends together in a vice with wooden blocks and a nyrex glove to protect the faces as I don't have an engineering flat block. I then used feeler gauges to measure the gap as 12,3,6, and 9 o'clock, going through each pair in turn and then looking at any variations.It's field engineering by comparison rather than precision engineering but sadly there are limits to my toolbox.
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