[Shotimes] Re: My Bearing Change

[Paul Nimz]

And another question.  Why is all the damage on the back three cylinders?  Is
something else wrong here?

Paul Nimz
'97 TR SHO
'93 EG mtx SHO




  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Paul Nimz
  To: `V6 SHOtimes
  Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 3:23 PM
  Subject: My Bearing Change


  As my '93 is about to go into daily 125 mile round trip commutes I figured
putting in rod bearings would be a good idea.  I had been saving them for my
motor that I was going to swap in but time is short and the motor in the car
was starting to knock at the point when the rods weren't under load.  In
between acceleration and deceleration.

  All went well with the strip down, the previous had had some problems as one
of the exhaust studs was an oversized one.

  The cars previous owner had sadly neglected the car and there is a lot of
dark oil stains internally.  I have had the car for almost 2 years and about
12k miles.  There is somewhere in the neighborhood of 150k on it.

  Three of the cylinders had bearings with no copper showing.  Cylinder 4 had
just a bit, maybe a 1/2" of copper visible.   Cylinder 6 had the copper
literally flaking off and Cylinder 5 the top bearing came out in two pieces
with the copper flaking off of it too.  it had not spun.

  My question is did this break when I popped the rod up?  I have been babying
it for the last three weeks with some motor honey and 10W40 oil.

  Paul Nimz
  '97 TR SHO
  '93 EG mtx SHO