[Shotimes] My Bearing Change

[Ron Porter]

I kinda doubt it broke when you popped the rod up, but it's possible,
especially if it still had the "tang" present to hold the bearing in place.
I had a few that were missing, so the bearing obviously was floating around.

I wouldn't worry about it. As long as the crank surfaces are good, you
should be OK.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Paul Nimz
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 4:24 PM
To: `V6 SHOtimes
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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