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So onto my next bit of winter tinkering.
It is my intention to replace the main and big-end bearings (engine in the car).
I intend to roll out top half of the mains.
Both the mains and big-end bearings are +010, so the crank must have had some work at some point.
So my question is #3 main is a wrap round type. Having cracked the cap off, the bearing appears to be very and I mean very tight to the cap, is this to be expected?
When I removed the sump, the pick-up strainer had silicon attached to it, silicon lumps in the small amount of sludge, and a small washer, not as many surprises, as I have had before in the past.
The silicon lumps are a good reason not to use it neat on a pan not really designed to do so unlike modern cars. Surefire likely point of oil starvation blocking the strainer
It is my intention to replace the main and big-end bearings (engine in the car).
I intend to roll out top half of the mains.
Both the mains and big-end bearings are +010, so the crank must have had some work at some point.
So my question is #3 main is a wrap round type. Having cracked the cap off, the bearing appears to be very and I mean very tight to the cap, is this to be expected?
When I removed the sump, the pick-up strainer had silicon attached to it, silicon lumps in the small amount of sludge, and a small washer, not as many surprises, as I have had before in the past.
The silicon lumps are a good reason not to use it neat on a pan not really designed to do so unlike modern cars. Surefire likely point of oil starvation blocking the strainer
Edited by BlueWedgy on Wednesday 9th March 07:21
I replaced my main and big end bearing shells the same way. I had to carefully use long fine screwdriver to tap round the tops but it all went fine and the engine sounds better for it on start up. On my old SEAC the strainer had fallen off the pipe completely when I took the sump off that.
Top tip for 'next time' 
...insert the aluminium part of a pop rivet into the oil feed hole of a main journal, so that its head protrudes, it will sweep the top shell out as you rotate the crank by hand. Probably won't work on the one with integral thrusts, but they have plenty of edge to tap at anyway.
...insert the aluminium part of a pop rivet into the oil feed hole of a main journal, so that its head protrudes, it will sweep the top shell out as you rotate the crank by hand. Probably won't work on the one with integral thrusts, but they have plenty of edge to tap at anyway.Gassing Station | Wedges | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff