[Shotimes] replacing main bearings?

[Mark Nunnally]

is the engine on a stand?  if so it's a snap

in the car it's pretty involved, I'd just leave 'em :)

mark (oil pan off the 92 one week before the convention to replace pan
seals, left the 200,000+ mile rod and main bearings and flogged it to CA,
flogged it there, and flogged it home)  <g>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Malachuk" <bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>; <TechSHO@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:46 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] replacing main bearings?


> how hard/involved is replacing main bearings? I just got finished coating
> the new rod bearings for my 3.2 with Techline Coatings retail version Dry
> film lubricant, and I'm really thinking that perhaps I should pull the
crank
> out of my 3.2 and replace the main bearings with new coated main bearings.
> After a few test strips of metal to get the airbrush spray pattern right,
> and 15 min of Techlines technical support ppl, coating the rod bearings
was
> a snap and they are curing in the oven right now at 300F. So are there any
> dificult steps in replacing main bearings? Because I'm really thinking
that
> with all the delays I have put myself thru, I should just do things right
on
> this motor, or at least as right as I can without cracking the heads off.
>
> If anyone out there wants a set of bearings coated  let me know, prices
> would be very very reasonable, like $40 for a set of rod bearings, and
> $30for a set of mains, course you provide the bearings.
>
> Bruce Malachuk
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