When I was a kid I watched my dad working on a Chevy 6 cyl .. he had spun a rod bearing(pretty sure
it was a rod).. he pulled the bearing and lowered the crank ... he got some emery paper at a hardware
and smoothed out the crank(as good as you can by hand.. cut a chunk of his belt off.. enough for a
upper and lower bearing and put it back together using the old oil.. had to add a couple of qts of oil
but we made it back home .. this was on our Deer hunting trip about 140 miles from home... he got another
junk yard engine when we got home.. I pretty much said I was gonna become a mech at that point