| would still have to remove the heads to remove the rods to remove the rod bolts right? Anyways, I was googling how to remove rod bolts and found a lot of forum discussions where members stated that anytime you change a rod bolt you need to have the rod resized. Just one example: [ http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/general-q/143629-what-exactly-resizing-rods.html ] "The large end of the rod has to be round and a specific size in order to hold the rod bearing in place and make sure it is perfectly round. After many hours of running, the rod usually distorts some from the factory dimension. This generally does not cause a problem as the engine ages because the distortion is gradual and allows the rod bearings to wear slightly and not fail. Depending on how bad the distortion is, if a new bearing is installed in the rod, it can be distorted bad enough that it will fail soon after the engine is rebuilt. So ... you resize the rods."
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