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Originally Posted by GuidoK
Also its virtually impossible to do it dry, because you're not going to clean out the holes with a solvent and a cotton bud (and oil is still dripping inside that hole because you have to lube the crank and bearings).
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That's what I was thinking. They were so elaborate with the other instructions, and they specifically say to "moisten" the bearing shells with 10W60. If they had wanted the rod threads to be sprayed down with MAF cleaner or similar and wanted the threads wiped clean inside the rod, they would have said so. I think they assumed the procedure would be done with the residual oil on the rod threads, so there was no need to lube the bolt, because it was going in a wet hole (ahemmm).
Salty