Check out my 99Cent ebay purchase.

[Raptor]

NIce try, but the machine I am looking at checks primarily for roundness (although it will show a bent crank as well), when polishing a crank it is easy to get the journals out of round, and you can effectively correct it if you have the knowledge. I wouldn't ever wast time using or straightening a bent crank. I will be doing crank polishing in house pretty quickly so I want an accurate method to verify the crank is as round as possible. I am not trying to replace the machine shop I use, they are top notch and have the best equipment available however, at 2 in the morning when I am assembling a motor and find a bearing clearance that is a couple ten thousanths tighter than I like, I won't have to wait till the machine shop opens and haul it over there etc, I can "adjust it" as needed and assemble it. It also makes it much easier of a decision, If you can do things in house, you are less likely to let a clearance fly due to time constraints because you know it will work even if it isn't the best scenario. With those capabilities, they can all be done based on what is the best setup rather than letting a customer talk me into assembling it "as is" so they can have their car a day sooner. It is amazing, but most try to do exactly that. Drives me freaking crazy.

[tpunx99GSX]

Originally Posted by Raptor

I am not trying to replace the machine shop I use, they are top notch and have the best equipment available however, at 2 in the morning when I am assembling a motor and find a bearing clearance that is a couple ten thousanths tighter than I like,

Forget Ten Thousanths, on this machine you could make sure its within a Millionth. LOL

[Raptor]

Most recent update, they are going to give it up. They have no issues with it, it was from an oldsmobile plant that was dissasembled recently, They are getting a hold of the location it is stored in to arrange a time for me to grab it and also a method that will work to load it on the truck (poor mighty Max) but it looks as though they are fine with it. The other thing I found amusing it that someone else had won it recently, (they won it for $2000) and they backed out in the end for some stupid reason. Good for me I guess.

[1ViciousGSX]

It's probably going to be a big corporate tax write-off anyway.

[FattyBoomBatty]

Originally Posted by 1ViciousGSX

It's probably going to be a big corporate tax write-off anyway.

yes, a BIG one.