Sick Main Bearing

From my earlier thread about rear main seal removal.

Here's Main Bearing #3.

 

I've seen a lot worse in running engines Sparky...

 

Well it is/was a running engine to begin with. R)

My neighbors first response was replace it when he saw it.

I'll probably get some time to work on it this weekend hopefully get the rear main seal out the rest of the way and put it back together.

I was planning to, just finally got around to taking pics and uploading.

Crank feels good, I can run my fingernail over it and don't feel anything.

 

You try the thin dowel rod/spin the crank trick yet?

 

Thin oak dowl is still hanging out of the rear of the block. R)

 

I didn't find anything like that.

I suspect a chewed up distributor drive gear or two myself. Being brass I'm guessing it's long gone.

 

So are you going to run it?

Enlighten me?

 

An old trick to getting the upper half of a rear main seal out is to push with a thin dowel rod while you rotate the crank. Sometimes it will spit the seal out when you rotate the crank, sometimes it doesn't.

 

Oh, yeah. I've done that, just not with a dowel rod... Usually can get away with a small screwdriver (carefully) and push it around enough to grab it and pull it out with pliers...

 

Unfortunately "In this far" means nothing here in this case because it's not like it's just an easy operation "while I'm here". There's a lot more to do just to replace the bearings and I don't have the resources at my disposal to get it to the point where I can replace them now. You'll also see that my oil pressure is good in that thread.

 

Trust me, I'd love to replace them.

Right now it's just not an option.

I'd like to do a complete overhaul now. Maybe next summer.