I look up at Midnight, greeted by a look of mild disappointment on her face. "Yeah, I wouldn't trust it. Sometimes you can have a machine shop mill down the journal to clean it up and use thicker bearings - but that only works to a point," I explain, running a fingernail across the damaged, grooved surface; it catches quite easily. "On the plus side – the crankshaft can become a new mailbox post or shop paperweight. Your choice."