[T3] The new Main bearings

[Daniel Nohejl]

Gary Berg (among others) uses and sells the Silverline bearings I mentioned
in a message earlier this morning.

Here's the link again:

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1128564

Daniel.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 15 Nov 2012 at 19:52, Keith Park wrote:
>
> > The T4 world has lost its steel backed center main bearings in the new
> > kits, has the T1 world Run out of the good ones yet?  Is there still
> > good stock?
>
> I don't know if this would apply to Type 4s, but I was sitting in a
> fellow Type 3 owner's can recently when I noticed a "Hot VW's"
> sitting there. I picked it up and found a Gary Berg article about
> main bearings. He now uses some different brand of main bearings that
> still come with the steel inserts, but I can't remember the brand. It
> was not a brand that I was familiar with.
>
> Someone here must have that magazine; what brand was that?
>
> I also had a conversation with RIMCO about this a couple decades ago,
> they told me that Metal-Leve mains came without the steel inserts in
> all the OD oversizes above +1 mm.
>
> > What are everyone's feelings on a non-steel backed center main?  Is it
> time
> > to hoard now?
>
> I don't know. I read somewhere that VW supplied the engines with the
> steel backed center main to countries with temperate climates, which
> I took to mean: where it can get cold. It's quite possible that if
> you never intend to start your engine when it's really cold, this
> might not matter.
>
> > BTW. can a CAST crank be turned down undersized like a forged crank can?
>
> I don't know, but I suspect this would be okay.
>
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