Crank damage?

[BOOT]

If you drop a sbc shortblock a short distance and it kinda lands on the forged crank snout what would you do?

edit: to be clear more of a straight down and it landed on a wood edge and dent that wood.

[BOOT]

Also to be clear not on the front end of the crank(bolt face) but the shortblock to go straight down, so he shank side of the snout.

[johnny5]

V blocks check for runout

[lefty o]

in all reality probably didnt hurt the crank, but id be concerned with the bearings.

[statsystems]

Pull the crank and set it in V blocks and check the run out.

Actually, you could put a dial indicator on the snout and roll it over and look at T.I.R.

[MadBill]

<EDIT> Written before seeing above post.
If it doesn't otherwise need to come apart, just check run out near the end of the snout with the crank in the block. I don't think there could be an issue with bearings; the contact area is such that the impact psi would be very low.

[BOOT]

Yah I was thinking at least check run-out, thx for the replies.

It's a brand new forged shortlbock, scat crank. I asked on another forum but I wanted to word it a bit diff here and compare responses. Anyways it was shipped and appears that the straps were broke or left off. The bag shows it was deff sliding back n forth into the crate and hitting on both ends of the crankshaft. The wood edge on the front snout that is dented is a about 1/3-1/2 up the crank so it would had to have been air born some and landed on that edge.

This is one of those I know the answer moments but it was a good deal so I want to be certain before I pass it up. Prob return only and no exchange, not a good enough deal to replace the crank if damaged. Manufacturer says they don't think it's damaged and it was shipped freight in the back of a semi fyi.