The crank bearings made in Israel are King, and AFAIK they do both original
and replacement quality.
John Kipping
----- Original Message -----
From: "William G Rosenbach" <wgrosenbach@juno.com>
To: <Guyots3@wmconnect.com>
Cc: <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Re Clevite bearings
> Way back, when I worked for American Parts System, they had a line of
> import parts that were parts they gathered from all over the world. They
> put them in boxes and marketed them under the name 'World Parts'.
> Everything had the name of the country of origin on the inner package and
> as I recall, rod and main bearings came from Israel. They were tri metal
> bearings.
> Recently, on Speed Channel they talked about the manufacture of such
> bearings. One country made the steel and it was sent to another country
> for the copper alloy and yet another country for the babbitt layer. All
> this made for a cost effective process, which amazes me.
> Not sure what applications of bearings they were producing or what name
> they attached, but they were of the tri metal construction. It seems as
> though they must be there, even if not under the Clevite name.
> Bill
>
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:08:03 EST Guyots3@wmconnect.com writes:
> > In a message dated 4/2/04 5:58:34 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > vinttr4@geneseo.net writes:
> >
> > > Subj:Re: Re Clevite bearings
> > > Date:4/2/04 5:58:34 AM Pacific Standard Time
> > > From: vinttr4@geneseo.net (Jack W. Drews)
> > > To: Guyots3@wmconnect.com, fot@autox.team.net
> > >
> > > There has been so much talk about the superiority of trimetal
> > bearings, and
> > > I agree, but are there any actually available for the TR3 - 4 from
> > any
> > >
> >
> > I have not yet found any such available.
> >
> > Rgds
> >
> > Lion
> >
> >
>
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