[PreWar] Help with babbitt bearings

[Bill5600 at aol.com]

In California I would talk to Jan Voboril. The last phone number I had was  
310 455 1026. Jan has driven his 1016 Lancia across the country and back 
and  does the best elderly engine work on the West coast.
 
Bill Alexander
 
 
In a message dated 10/20/2009 3:19:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
mikey at b2systems.com writes:

OK, now  we are on the correct coast, please reply to the list so I know
also.   I had the address of someone in San Diego who has done pre-war
Singer  motors before but that was about 10 years ago and not even sure
he is still  around, trying to get his name/number back, its on a very
old IPAQ handheld  that is not working right now :(  He was quite elderly
then, I have to  assume he is not working anymore as he would be in his
90s now.  Too  bad too because he had made some jigs for the Singer
motor.

But San  Fran is close enough, if there is someone up there I can take
my motor up  there.

mike

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 10:35 -0700,  Gundry, Kenneth wrote:
> While we're on the subject, so to speak, can  anyone recommend a firm to 
do
> Babbitt bearings in the San Francisco  Bay Area?  I have no real reason to
> suspect problems at present,  but I am a bit puzzled that oil pressure is 
not
> maintained at low  revs. when the oil gets hot, and one explanation would 
be
> that one or  more bearings are leaking oil.
> 
> If the bearings were  converted
> to shells (if appropriate sizes were available), would  bearing life be 
greater
> or less?
> 
> Ken G, 1925 Rover  16/50 Touring Car (San Francisco, well, Walnut
> Creek  now)
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