Needle bearings in oil Pan!!!!!
03-26-2010, 12:25 AM
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Needle bearings in oil Pan!!!!! i hope this is in the right section??? well my buddy needed my oil pan off my sand rail project engine. so i drain it and there is two needle bearings on the magnetic drain plug.. what r they oh well i guess i might have to be forced to do forged low compression now lol.
03-26-2010, 12:31 AM
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trunion bearings from your roller rockers,comp cams makes an upgrade kit for your trunions.
http://www.compcams.com/information/...ionupgrade.pdf
http://www.compcams.com/information/...ionupgrade.pdf
03-26-2010, 03:00 AM
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Pop both valve covers and figure out which one it was that let loose. Get all you can out. . . take another one and count needles and see if you're good or need to flush. Heads probably don't need to come off to clean up... Saw a case where 3 let loose at same time (bad valve install) and we lost 1... said to hell w/it and figured it was in the filter 
03-26-2010, 04:10 AM
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Not nearly as big a problem as you think. Like was mentioned, get what you can out, pull your rockers and check them out. That comp upgrade is all you need. LS based NASCAR testing is using the trunnion conversion and stock stamped rockers. 8000+ rpm for 500 miles straight.. all the proof I need.
03-26-2010, 07:01 AM
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trunion bearings from your roller rockers,comp cams makes an upgrade kit for your trunions.
http://www.compcams.com/information/...ionupgrade.pdf
http://www.compcams.com/information/...ionupgrade.pdf
03-26-2010, 09:36 AM
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Pull the valve covers, rockers, and pushrods. Take a pen magnet that will fit down the pushrod holes and go fishing. Make sure you count all of the needle bearings that you find to make sure you got all of them. I think you'll likely find most of them in the head.
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I've got a kit and I'm about to install it this week. How it works is you press or pound out the stock trunion in the rocker arm, press in a new bearing on one side, stick the new trunion in, press on a new bearing on the other side, snap into place a snap ring on both sides to hold everything in. There is a sponsor on here that is offering to do the upgrade for $200. That includes the kit and installation.
03-27-2010, 05:31 PM
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I've got a kit and I'm about to install it this week. How it works is you press or pound out the stock trunion in the rocker arm, press in a new bearing on one side, stick the new trunion in, press on a new bearing on the other side, snap into place a snap ring on both sides to hold everything in. There is a sponsor on here that is offering to do the upgrade for $200. That includes the kit and installation.
03-28-2010, 11:49 AM
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Wow, I guess I'm not the only one to have this happen. Just pulled the plug and 4 of them little buggers were on there. Pulled the valve covers and found the offending rocker arm. Looks like just one. Guess I'll be ordering a rebuild kithttp://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:http://www.ls1tech.com/get/forums/im...h/rolleyes.gif
03-28-2010, 01:20 PM
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Wow, I guess I'm not the only one to have this happen. Just pulled the plug and 4 of them little buggers were on there. Pulled the valve covers and found the offending rocker arm. Looks like just one. Guess I'll be ordering a rebuild kithttp://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:http://www.ls1tech.com/get/forums/im...h/rolleyes.gif
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my motor just started knocking the other day on the top end sounds like. drained the oil found some needle bearing thought it was the rockers but all of the checked out fine and the needle bearings I found are slightly bigger than the ones on rockers....anyone know were these could have come from??? wristpins....oil pump??
07-06-2012, 07:55 PM
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my motor just started knocking the other day on the top end sounds like. drained the oil found some needle bearing thought it was the rockers but all of the checked out fine and the needle bearings I found are slightly bigger than the ones on rockers....anyone know were these could have come from??? wristpins....oil pump??
07-06-2012, 08:50 PM
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my motor just started knocking the other day on the top end sounds like. drained the oil found some needle bearing thought it was the rockers but all of the checked out fine and the needle bearings I found are slightly bigger than the ones on rockers....anyone know were these could have come from??? wristpins....oil pump??
