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Originally Posted by Elarson
If you feel that it's oil starvation (which creates intense heat, lots of friction and rips the rod apart), then I'd seriously consider going away from the 20w-50 oil. A thinner oil will get more flow to the bearings (less dumped over the pump relief valve) and the bearings will run cooler. We ran 10w-30 in the Grocery Getter and never had a bearing failure.
FWIW:
Eric
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Eric,
Do you remember your main and rod bearing clearances?
SD