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John D


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And y'all...

Derek has a more vested interest in this, but I thought it was really interesting. Just having the 100 year old tooling to be able to do this job is amazing.



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Cool video!

Auto Value store in St. Cloud still does babbitt in their machine shop. That's where the machine work on my T engine was done... not many shops out there that can still do it!

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Derek Kiefer - Mantorville, MN

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Great video! I didn’t know they poured the bearings like that. 



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People have tried putting insert bearings in them, but they don't live long in an engine without pressurized oiling.

I think Chevy had poured bearings in the rods of the 6cyl engines well into the 60s, since only the mains were pressurized on some of them.

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