Missing bearings (big pics inside)

[Loki]

Well I finally got around to dropping the oil pan off my motor to see what kind of damage I did to it. Well after finally getting the pan unstuck from the block, I think someone used a few to many tubes of gasket stuff on it :3d_frown:

I pulled my #3 cap, because it was the right there. It checked out fine. Next I turn the motor so I can get at my #6, I go to put the socket on and the whole rod just moves around knocking on the crank. I checked my other ones and they are all fine, well they don't move, I will pull the caps and check them later. I proceed to pull the cap off and not much of a surprise there, no bearing to be found. So I figure it must have spun to the top, which was wrong.

I have no bearings on my #6 rod, I don't know where they went. They are not stuck anywhere on the crank or in the rod or cap, they weren't in the oil pan and looking around I just can’t find them.

So my question is, where would they have gone? I looked all over inside the bottom end and cannot find them.

Here are some pics of the motor, sorry for the blurry ones. I was trying to show that the bearings aren’t up top. They are quite big pics, but I don't feel like resizing them.

 

[Supra Blues]

Haha....No bearing huh?

I wonder who forgot that!! D'oh!:nono:

 

[Spiv]

that's...creative? any signs of metal shavings or anything in the oil? Did we maybe just forget to install one? :stickpoke

 

[Loki]

The car ran perfect up till the time I thought it had spun the bearing, the oil looked clean, and there is no metal shavings or anything in the oil pan.

 

[supra90turbo]

i dont know what to say... haha.... i mean, that sucks and all... but... uh.. lol is all that i can think of...

 

[IJ.]

It hasn't welded the inserts to the crank?

 

[mrnickleye]

I believe your bearings are merged to the crank. Often when a bearing spins loose from the rod & cap, they will heat up and stick (like welding) to the crank.:nono:

 

[Joel W.]

that 5th pic down looks like a seam in the crank( bearings)

 

[Spiv]

that 5th pic down looks like a seam in the crank( bearings)

I don't see the seam you're talking about, but now that you guys mention it the crank does look a little extra thick there...

 

[Joel W.]

looks like its bout an inch below the upper connecting rod stud 5th pik down

 

[Loki]

I'll take a look tomorrow and see if they did infact weld to the crank. I can compare it to my crank out of my other motor.

It does look like in some of the pics that there is a line on it, but I looked at it after seeing that in the pics and I think it's just the rod reflecting in the crank. There is no line there, it is completly smooth.

 

[IJ.]

It wouldn't have ran with no insert Loki! (Well NOT without you noticing the jackhammer in the pan noise)

I'm backing you'll find em fused to the crank!

If you can find a hint of a part line give it a tap with a hammer and screwdriver and they shoul pop off!

 

[Loki]

It wouldn't have ran with no insert Loki! (Well NOT without you noticing the jackhammer in the pan noise)

I know, it never knocked at all the whole time I had it. Well that is till after the fateful incident :cry:

I should know mroe tomorrow, if I can't find them I'm going to call my buddy who is finally back in town and see if he has any ideas.

 

[GrimJack]

LOL - that bearing has been stolen by the same guys that hid the WMD in the middle east.

 

[Loki]

Alright, I compared it to my other crank and they look exactly the same. So my bearings are completly gone.....

 

[Joel W.]

Alright, I compared it to my other crank and they look exactly the same. So my bearings are completly gone.....

did you measure them?

thats just wierd man... had to go somewhere?

 

[GrimJack]

The answers to your questions always just raise more questions.

Luckily, you can at least claim that you are confused on a higher level than you were before.

 

[IJ.]

Still think they're fused to the crank !

There isn't a big enough gap for them to get out and it wouldn't have been unnoticed if they were missing from day 1.

 

[GrimJack]

Oh, I've seen them vanish entirely - the oil supply for the bearing gets plugged, the bearing runs dry, and the temp in the bearing rapidly gets hot enough to melt the (mostly) lead bearing completely away.

 

[Joel W.]

wouldnt there be alot of grey metal like sludge in the bottom of the pan? or hack that oil filter apart. see if its in there?