[Shotimes] Re: My Bearing Change

[Paul L Fisher]

The picture I sent earlier of mine, the two end cylinders had the most
damage. The ones in the middle just had some copper showing.

Paul L Fisher
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Nimz" <niks@dlogue.net>
To: "`V6 SHOtimes" <SHOtimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 15:42
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: My Bearing Change


> 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
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