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Originally Posted by 1love
Nice work! Those are indeed some of the better looking ones around here. After seeing the condition of the OEMs are you still happy with going WPC vs staying OEM vs waiting for the updated design?
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Yes, I am happy with going WPC as the guys around here have had good experiences with them. All they are is a stock bearing with a treatment that increases clearance a bit. Bolts...I may have gone ARP a second time around, but it was a good experience to learn about angle torque and how stretch bolts work.
As far as the updated design, I know Kawa and RG are putting some serious R&D into these, but neither myself or Dylan wanted to be the first to try them out, nor willing to wait until potentially october to buy them. I'll probably do the bearings again in 60-70k miles, and hopefully by then there will be some feedback on the new bearings.
With the way my bearings looked, I think I'll be good with the WPC for quite some time. I double triple checked everything on the install, and it went pretty well.
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Originally Posted by FNG
Good job!
Funny how desensitized we are to rod bearing wear. In any other engine, this would be considered significantly abnormal wear. I don't think i've ever seen a rod bearing thread with what is generally considered normal wear.
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- Second sentence...Bingo. Do we know what a normal wear bearing looks like?
I know I don't. I'm tempted to take apart my wife's jeep (Simple pan drop as the whole subframe does not have to come out lol) and change out the bearings just because I want to see what the difference in wear would be on another vehicle where the bearings are a non issue. Would be an interesting test.
Both Dylan and my bearings were in pretty decent shape, his being a little worse but not much at 88k miles. He did the DIY a few months ago and helped me through this process. Pretty amazing what has to be done to the car. Actually driving it after the front end has been completely disassembled is an experience in and of itself.