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Jaykay,
If you watch the video in the link i posted you'll see how the set screw is retained. The video was produced by the person gelbster mentions - John Edwards of Costa Mesa R&D. Basically by careful use of the tapered tap, you can cause the screw to basically run aground against the uncut portion of the threads at the bottom of the hole at the exact same time the screw goes below flush on the outside.
He uses some high temp thread locking goo. I used JB Weld. That screw is not going anywhere. I considered running another screw at 180 degrees to balance the first, but the weight of a set screw is going to be very close to the weight of the materiel removed during drill and tap. Given the difference between those two weights relative to the mass of the shaft , I'm not going to lose any sleep over balancing.
Gelbster,
I won't ever declare victory, and certainly not after a few thousand miles. The only time my vehicles are driven carefully is while waiting for temps to come up. What i will do is share what i learn along the way. This has been a very educational process.
I too am running the ARP rod bolts. I got the bearing carrier bolts but they came with the instruction to align bore the carrier. That's not happening this time around, so I'm sitting on those bolts until next time.
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