[Shotimes] My Bearing Change

[alfitz@alfitz.com]

What I would do, is measure each journal for the correct tolerance and
roundness. Then make sure that the oil holes are clear. Replace the bearings
and 'plasti-guage' them for correct fit. If they all check out, and probably
will if none of the bearings have spun, and call it good. Other than that,
you're looking at a major rebuild.

Al Fitzgerald
alfitz@alfitz.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Nimz" <niks@dlogue.net>
To: "`V6 SHOtimes" <SHOtimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 3:23 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] 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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