What does anybody know about pressing a crank

Or you could send it to Jeff at Midwest Crank. This guy did crank repair for Yamaha when every crank in every 1998-1999 needed to be phased and welded. He tells me the labor portion of crank repair is 125-150$. This would be the pressing, phasing, welding, truing, and grinding it apart. Then of course if you need parts the bill goes up from their.
 
125-150 is pretty darn resonable for labour. For the time I have into this now I'm working for about $3.50/hr:) I'm actually enjoying the process of learing how to do this. Mind, you I wouldn't attempt it on a newer machine but the machine I'm working on is a 97 skidoo.
 
Mac said:
Or you could send it to Jeff at Midwest Crank. This guy did crank repair for Yamaha when every crank in every 1998-1999 needed to be phased and welded. He tells me the labor portion of crank repair is 125-150$. This would be the pressing, phasing, welding, truing, and grinding it apart. Then of course if you need parts the bill goes up from their.
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That's exactly what I was thinking. Send it to jeff and be done with it. I found its not worth screwing around w/crank rebuilding, when jeff is an hour drive away w/great prices and the quality work to back it up.
 
Well, crank is back together. Everything seems to be good. I have the runout within .003". Started out at .015". It was a great learning process but a lot of work.
 
Hey, I know this is an old thread, but I'm thinking of breaking down a crank and welding it up after rebuild, it's got water damage though and I'm not sure if it's any good since the rod bearings on the crank got rusty, it's a 700 red head triple, anyone know if parts are available still?
 
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