[PreWar] Help with babbitt bearings

[Gundry, Kenneth]

Bill et al.

Someone on San Francisco Peninsula, with a 1939 Daimler, has
suggested that I contact Alec Giamo in San Carlos.  I haven't tried to look
him up, and probably won't do so since I am coming to the conclusion that it
is very unlikely that I am in need of remade bearings at present (they were
renewed only very few thousand miles ago) but others might find this
information useful (and a review of actual work would be helpful).

Ken G,
1925 Rover 16/50 (San Francisco)

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Sent: Tuesday, 20 October, 2009 2:13 PM
To:
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Subject: Re:
[PreWar] Help with babbitt bearings

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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