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Hello Dennis, Thanks for your response; I've had advice from all over the globe on this one! As you know the Javelin engine lives in two crank case halves, very like a VW engine, so the crack affects the whole of one half. There are no bearing caps as such. If only life were as simple as replacing b...

Hello Mike, Thanks for your reply. I don't know if the crank had broken since I bought the crankcases devoid of other engine components. They appeared to be in such good nick, showing no corrosion around the head surfaces etc. that I, and presumably the vendor believed them to be sound. I have taken...

This crack is in the opposite half; all the same I bet the crack at the tie nut aperture did not take kindly to being torqued! I dread the thought of having to have this one welded then line-bored again...

Hello, has anyone experienced a crack across the front main bearing carrier on a Javelin crankcase? I went to asemble an engine from scratch recently with new shells to find that when the front bolts were torqued up the crank locked solid. On inspection I found a crack across the shell carrier on th...