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Description and Operation
Connecting Rod: Description and Operation
Connecting Rods
MINI COOPER
connecting rods
are manufactured from 'non-coplanar' powder metal. they are manufactured in one piece and then fractured across the big end journal.
Note on fracture process.
Fracture Process: