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I saw my name mentioned here. I never find fault with other places as there are many ways to achieve the result.
I did speak to JKarow and I would have suggested to him, it is my opinion that narrowing the cases is never my first choice. We always cut the cases oversize once we know we can obtain the necessary bearing shells. Narrowing the case opens up a lot of other potential issues.
But we have done this narrowing before when we had no choice. If fact we have even cut the main housing a lot larger and inserted an insert that was then cut to the standard size. As I said, there are a lot of ways to achieve the result. I just favor limiting all of the other potential issues whenever possible.
We do this line bore work but not at the volume that Ollies do. We are not a production machine shop. We do all of our machine work inhouse and for those that want a lot quicker turnaround we can accommodate.
Bearings are hard to find as we struggle with this as well. We have found ways around this, re cutting the tang grooves on the opposite side of the main so an earlier shell can be fitted. We are also in the first stages of having main and rod bearings made.
All of this takes time, so in the meantime, go with whatever achieves the result you are looking for.
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