Main bearings are located between the crankshaft main journals and the engine block and mating main bearing caps. Each two-piece bearing forms a circle around the crankshaft, with one half held in ...

The right bearings are an all-important factor in a performance engine-in fact, they're vital. Bearings, of course, keep the crankshaft-which is turning somewhere around 7-8,000 rpm-spinning ...

The most important part of installing a crank is making sure you have the proper clearance between the main bearings and the crank journals. The general rule of thumb is 0.001 inch of clearance ...

Plain, or sleeve, bearings are the most common type used today. Such bearings come in half-shell-shaped pairs that, when matched together at their parting faces, encompass a crankshaft's main ...

With a main bearing on the rear and front caps and plenty of lubrication, we dropped our new stroker crank into the block and reinstalled our ARP bolts to hold the caps in place. See All 23 Photos 12.

Some V8 engines have five main bearings, with one crank pin between each pair of adjacent main bearings. Most straight-5 engines have six main bearings, to help counter the essential imbalance of ...

Garage 54 shows what happens when you remove the insert bearings from an engine’s connecting rods and crankshaft. ... and not forgotten something obvious like a main cap or bearing.