<VV> re:cam bearings

[JVHRoberts at aol.com]

If it were me, I would have a machine shop machine the inserts from bar  
stock. Split the bar, clamp it together, bore to size, part off the shells. Use  a 
dowel pin ala VW to prevent them from spinning. These are small enough to be 
a  fairly simple part to make. 
 
 
In a message dated 2/7/2006 12:52:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
s10birdman1966 at yahoo.com writes:

Would  rod bearing inserts,even from another engine,allow themselves to be  
"recurved",without losing the facing?Even without the surface,I'd say just the  
shell with a mirror finish would be a better surface than the aluminum  
block,especially since the cam turns half-speed...rather than pinning them to  the 
block,just cut a notch for the tangs...btw,I do have a block that was cold  
tanked,and where the varnish spots were on both the main and cam bearing  
surfaces became eroded rendering the block junk...Tom  Z/acorns