Well. The bearings on my old engine were perfect, but the machine shop cracked that block, and then got me a new one. With very very bad oil pump drive bearings. And pretty much bad everything else too.
So. Where do I get these things? The ones from Toyota are oversize... and the only other...
My Clevite/NDC bearings finally came in, and I've concluded that the machine shop fails at measuring.. Seeing as if I used his measurements, and then subtracted the bearing shell size from it (.08 for those who were wondering) I would get -0.008.. But when I plastigauge it I get roughly .002 for...
Does anybody have a picture of the back of the panels? I find it hard to believe the pre91 brackets were mounted to nothing. ;)
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So. Toyota called me today. Apparently several of the bearings, and the standard size thrust washers have been discontinued.
So I called up the machine shop, and he advised me to buy a standard set of bearings since all my numbers were pretty damn close to each other. So that's what I did...
Its okay. Thank you, you've been a huge help! Hopefully my bearings will be here soon and there will be progress in my build thread!
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So. I figured out bearing sizes for all journals. I just threw the chart out the window and did the subtraction myself.
I still have two questions though. I have the rods at .0014. On all the rod bearings, I can use a #5 bearing and bring 3 to .0009 (spec is .0008-.0021), and 1 to .0010, and 2...
IJ, what exactly happened in your BBC? I guess it just doesn't make sense to me how a broken rod bolt can lead to a broken camshaft lol
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