[Healeys] [Fwd: County]

[richard mayor]

We racers have learned first hand (the hard way) that County bearings only 
live a few hours in a race motor. AE, Glacier, Vandervell, and ACL survive 
many, many long hours under racing conditions. Got a trailer queen? No need 
to worry about quality bearings. Drive your car hard and want dependability? 
Use good bearings.  Richard Mayor, Portland, Oregon


>From: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
>To: david porter <frogeye at swcp.com>
>CC: 'healeylist' <healeys at autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: [Healeys] [Fwd: County]
>Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:50:27 -0700
>
>OK, I forwarded this to the List (with Wayne's permission), so I'll chime 
>in.
>
>I read this as they built the original engine twice--with County 
>bearings--and had
>problems.  The third build was the spare engine.
>
>Nonetheless, your data is noted--the original engine could have had bottom 
>end
>issues the spare engine (third build) didn't.
>
>Anyone else have experience with County parts?
>
>
>bs
>
>
>david porter wrote:
>>I gotta chime in on this one. I've re-built hundreds of bottom ends and 
>>have
>>been using the County bearings for many of them (being a loyal Moss Dist.)
>>Bearings simply do not slide apart. That requires friction and resultant
>>heat. I suspect that on the 3rd go around your friend finally did (or
>>re-did) the machine shop work that the bottom end required in the first
>>place.
>>  Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>Bob Spidell         San Jose, CA        bspidell at comcast.net
>'67 Austin-Healey 3000             '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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