Big End bearings

JCP123 · Monday at 06:17

No I think it’s just a poor photo. Everything was torqued with new bolts when assembled and tight when disassembled.

lynall · Monday at 07:36

JCP123 said:
No I think it’s just a poor photo. Everything was torqued with new bolts when assembled and tight when disassembled.

this might sound stupid but did you fit the conrod caps on the right way around?

lynall · Monday at 07:38

freelance said:
The big end cap looks terribly hammered in the pic, were the bolts loose when you dismantled, or is it a poor photo?

they are cracked conrods they are not smooth face like the older engines but they only fit one way around.

JCP123 · Monday at 10:39

lynall said:
this might sound stupid but did you fit the conrod caps on the right way around?

Yes, they were fitted the right way round. It’s hard to get it wrong really.

Eldon · Monday at 10:45

The photo suggests dirt and foreign material to me. Some passageway somewhere wasn't cleaned maybe?

Plastigauge on new shells and tell us what you get?

JCP123 · Monday at 15:42

I know what you mean. Everything was cleaned thoroughly and kept in a clean environment. But it doesn’t look like it at all does it?

There’s really no point in Plastigauging as the journals mic out as perfectly round and standard so STD shells are what it takes regardless of what the Plastigauge says.

lynall · Monday at 17:17

JCP123 said:
Yes, they were fitted the right way round. It’s hard to get it wrong really.

Heard first hand of it done wrong on a truck engine.

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