Can't help you with the bearing thickness, but Clevite are about the best
you can buy.
If I read this post right your suggesting that line boring will force you
to use oversize bearings. This is quite to the contrary - Line boring the
block will NOT make the bearing bores any bigger. What is done is that a
small amount of material is removed from the mating surfaces of the block
and main bearing caps. this makes the holes slightly oval shape. Then the
block is bored to original size with the caps bolted in place and torqued
to spec. This procedure will bring them back into original specifications
and true the bores in the block so actually this is the best bet for your
situation. - I get all my blocks line bored jut to make sure everything is
true and to original specs when I do any performance rebuild - "Oversize"
bearings refers to bearings that are made thicker so that when bolted in
place the bore is smaller, not the outside diameter is bigger - line boring
has no effect what so ever in increasing bearing size - only grinding the
crank undersize will do that - hope that addresses at least some of your
concerns. If I read your post wrong, disregard this one and chock it up to
more info for those that didn't know the procedure :-)
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>Sorry for this lengthy post. I dont want to line bore the block and put
>in oversize bearings unless I absolutely have to, and given that my old
>bearings produced good or at least better results it kinda points to a
>bearing problem. If so, I doubt if the bearing manufacturer will be in
>a position to do anything for me other than perhaps hand selecting some
>bearings, which King said they would consider but I'm not sure if they
>can go a full .001" over their spec. Can anyone out there help shed
>some light on this?
bschwart@pacbell.net
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