Thinking about getting this 97

I was looking at my dirtbike main bearings; rollers pressed into a magnesium case that had too thin of a cross-section, and is broken around the entire bearing cup. Crap. Welding magnesium sux.
 
Bearings usually stay where they're supposed to. It's when they go bad that they come out. rollers don't, plain bearings stick...
Matt, was it your 2v that lost oil pressure?
 
XR7-4.6 said:
Rear wheel bearings are press fit, as are cam bearings in pushrod engines, the control arm bushings, ball joints, numerous transmission bearings etc
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Don't forget about the venerable Ford 2.3 🤪 press fit cam bearings. I'm sure there are other non pushrod engines with press fit cam bearings.
 
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Don't forget about the venerable Ford 2.3 🤪 press fit cam bearings. I'm sure there are other non pushrod engines with press fit cam bearings.
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Hey, only I’m allowed to be pedantic round these parts! 🤣

Grog6 said:
Bearings usually stay where they're supposed to. It's when they go bad that they come out. rollers don't, plain bearings stick...
Matt, was it your 2v that lost oil pressure?
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Both my 2V and my 4V did, the used HO pickup tube I had turned out to be bent upward. I glittered the oil but I managed to catch it before it damaged anything beyond the rod bearings. Mains, cam caps, even the rod journals on the crank were unscathed. I caught it before the bearings could spin

The 2V I full on spun them, the crank and rods scored scratched and blued and just trashed. The 4 of the 8 bearings were basically 90° from where they were.
 
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I fixed the front right turn signal and at the same time I broke the little tabs that secure the ballast to the rest of the harness 😓. Am I to expect any trouble with these tabs broken?

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And water is the reason why I separated this part and not just do a twist and pull. I knew that the lens had water penetration from when I bought the car back in July, but it apparently has been an ongoing thing for a while because of the corrosion and the green spots throughout the interior of the lens.

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So with this level of corrosion, I decided to pull out one of the spares I purchased some time ago. It wasn't a perfect unit, but it's dry and the ballast is perfectly fine. The only flaw it has is a small crack in the lens itself. The one I removed was crack free, but had all that corrosion and green pits throughout the silver as seen above.

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This corner light was intended for Dirty Bird, but seeing that Dirty Bird isn't being driven right now, Gold Bird got it.
 
Ballast? It’s an incandescent bulb, there’s no ballast, it’s just a connector to a socket. I’m far more used to 89-95 ones where the wires just go straight to a barely sealed socket. In your case the gasket looks intact so I wouldn’t worry about the lock tabs being broken
 
XR7-4.6 said:
Ballast? It’s an incandescent bulb, there’s no ballast, it’s just a connector to a socket. I’m far more used to 89-95 ones where the wires just go straight to a barely sealed socket. In your case the gasket looks intact so I wouldn’t worry about the lock tabs being broken
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You're so pedantic with terminology 😂
 
XR7-4.6 said:
Yeah because without people like me being pedantic there’d be swaths of the masses calling lead/acid batteries nuclear reactors! 😝
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Meh. I'll just also interchange shocks and struts when talking about our MN12 front ends 😂.

Also, meet my boy and he'll give all the "what if" scenarios possible that won't ever happen, up to and including, nuclear explosions from the tiniest of things followed by the, "I know how jet engines work and why they should be in everything that flies" 🤣
 
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