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D2 main bearings ???

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Mr. Hypile
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I am looking for .030 undersize main bearings for my D2, d311 motor. Or if they need to be made where can I get it done ??
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Thu, Mar 26, 2015 7:30 AM
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If you are unable to locate main bearings I can reline your old shells and machine them to spec for you.
Mike
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Thu, Mar 26, 2015 10:01 PM
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If you are unable to locate main bearings I can reline your old shells and machine them to spec for you.
Mike
Thanks Mike looks good how do I get ahold of you ?
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Fri, Mar 27, 2015 4:49 AM
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Thanks Mike looks good how do I get ahold of you ?
Hi Team,
I believe this era machine ran the thick aluminium shells, with no Babbitt, on both the rod and main bearings.

You may need to make up bronze shells and Babbitt them.

Others have machined suitable aluminium bearing material to make their own shells. I think there was some discussion before Xmas about this and it seems from the discussion that Toyota pistons are very similar metallurgy to the Cat shells???

Cheers,
Eddie B.
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Fri, Mar 27, 2015 6:03 AM
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Hi Team,
I believe this era machine ran the thick aluminium shells, with no Babbitt, on both the rod and main bearings.

You may need to make up bronze shells and Babbitt them.

Others have machined suitable aluminium bearing material to make their own shells. I think there was some discussion before Xmas about this and it seems from the discussion that Toyota pistons are very similar metallurgy to the Cat shells???

Cheers,
Eddie B.
He contacted me today and he thinks they may be aluminium and suitable tinning solutions for aluminium to babbit are either elusive or non-existant these days. Making new shells is not out of the question.
Mike
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Fri, Mar 27, 2015 6:40 AM
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He contacted me today and he thinks they may be aluminium and suitable tinning solutions for aluminium to babbit are either elusive or non-existant these days. Making new shells is not out of the question.
Mike
Thanks everyone for the help I think these will have to be made now if I can get the right material I will get them made.
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Fri, Mar 27, 2015 6:54 AM
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Thanks everyone for the help I think these will have to be made now if I can get the right material I will get them made.
Mr Hypile,
have you checked with Cat? I picked up some of the 030 bearings I needed from Cat, and got the rest from a couple of parts houses - they're out there. The only one I couldn't track down was the front main, so I had that journal welded back up to std and there is a healthy quantity of std bearings available
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