In a message dated 10/6/2006 4:58:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
owner-fot-digest@autox.team.net writes:
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:44:28 -0500
> From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
> Subject: [FOT] rod and main bearings
>
> I don't really want to be the one to start the annual rant on engine
> bearings, and maybe this has already been answered, but here goes anyway.
>
> I've used the aluminum bearings from Moss for several years,
> identified on the box as COUNTY and have not had any problems
> whatsoever with them. However, King advertises heavily, and a couple
> of the suppliers advertise that they are the finest and they are tri-metal.
>
> I found a source for King bearings and decided to try them. Printed
> right on the box it said they were tri-metal. I installed them today.
>
> In the process I found that the King bearings and the Moss-supplied
> bearings had nearly identical stampings on the back. Both said
>
> COUNTY
> REGO UK
> C438 STD and then two letters, which were different on the old and
> new bearings.
>
> I could not detect a difference in appearance, but must admit that I
> noticed all this so late in the game that I didn't take a file to one
> of the new ones to see if it really was tri metal. With identical
> stamping on the back, it doesn't seem likely, does it?
>
> Comments?
>
> uncle jack
>
> Dear Uncle Jack,
>
> Please enlighten us, what, pray tell were the two mysterious letters after
> C438 STD? and how do they/might they indicate one set being aluminum and the
> other set being tri-metal?
>
> AL and TM perhaps?
>
> or what?
curiously yours
Lion F Guyot
will need bearings eventually, but then again won't we all?
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