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      05-20-2022, 09:54 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by DrFerry View Post
Believe it or not - you were lucky. Some of the other imagur photos show the bearing 'tabs' were worn away (missing). It means the motor was just about to spin the bearings and that could've resulted in throwing a rod through the block ("windowing" the block). I see no tabs on this bearing shell..???
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Sorry to ask, what do you mean by 'tabs'?

Also, forgot to upload the outside of one of the RB:
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One thing that feels weird to me, is that everytime I googled for "S65 RB replacement", the RB were much more "used", the copper part was showing, however, as the RB I've shown in the pics (which is where it has some damage) doesn't really expose any copper, it actually looks almost "new" - I was expecting something like this (Not my pic):
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