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Originally Posted by Scharbag
Also, with the data available, it is clear that most S65 rod bearings have less than the industry standard clearance, even if the engine was lucky enough to be built on the loose end of the curve.
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"built on the loose end of the curve" how does that work?
All 16 rod bearing shells in one engine hit the cosmic jackpot of being manufactured out of tolerance exactly the right amount to provide a "lucky" amount of looseness for all 8 rods? What are the odds of that?
Sure a handful of engines maybe...but its not going to have occurred in the thousands of engines running 100,000 150,000 and even >200,000 miles on original bearings.
The chances of that are zero.