SOHC.co.uk Forums > Project Board
1976 CB550F1 (what have I let myself in for) Project
eight0:
Ok thanks again for the advice oddjob. If the ones next to the rotor are brown (1 and 2), strange you cant see the colour on them but that bearings 3-5 do look brown!
Bearings are coming out at £142 on CMSNL. Any other cheaper sources you know of before I take the plunge? DSS only has greens and are a similar price anyway.
Thanks for the advice and putting up with all the Crankshaft pics!
Do the rod bearings look ok?
eight0:
Oh man, ok. All rods are E2.
eight0:
Actually the colour is clearly visible on the rod bearings. All brown. Do you think I should order 8 then or just 4?
eight0:
Hey, some people like to collect penny blacks, others, black bearing shells. ;D
OK, I've ordered 8 brown rod bearings, 4 brown and 6 green crank bearings. I imagine they will take some time to arrive..
Thanks for all the advice oddjob.
eight0:
So I've finally got the bearings I ordered.
Actually I got double the order as cms took weeks and it didn't look like it was going to happen so I cancelled the order and ordered for more money from DS. Both ordered turned up within a day of eachother! Ah well, I can send one back.
Unbelievably, having now taken the old bearings out of the cases, they are clearly ALL browns. The case markings are BBAAA so if as oddjob says, the A's must be either green or yellow, someone must have had this engine open before and installed all browns.
What should I do! If I open both orders from CMS and DS to check tolerances with both green/brown and all brown I can't return the bearings.
Does make me wonder whether the rods which had all browns were right either.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version