[P@blo]

Originally Posted by Half-Inch Stud

Building my spare engine, and still on the fence for big HYD FT vs SMALL Roller cam.

Same here HIS. If you never drive it I'd go roller as it cool to say you have a roller motor even know the bearings are not.

Always wanted a BMW

[Dragncar]

Originally Posted by P@blo

Same here HIS. If you never drive it I'd go roller as it cool to say you have a roller motor even know the bearings are not.

Always wanted a BMW

Roller bearings are one of the reasons Germany lost WWII. Tanks do not need roller crank bearings, but they had them. Cost,time=lose.

OP, first thing you need to do is cut your oil filter apart and see what you have going on.

[P@blo]

Roller bearings lost the war. Nope.

[Dragncar]

Originally Posted by P@blo

Roller bearings lost the war. Nope.

That was not what I was trying to say. The Germans had a habit and still do of making things over complicated when it was not needed to get the job done.
Made equipment hard to produce, time consuming and expensive.
We won the war because we simply out produced them. Their Panzer tanks were far superior to our Shermans but we made 50,000 of them !!
They call that POS Sherman Ronson,s because they lit the first hit, every time.
Operating a Sherman in WWII was horrible duty.

[PontiacJim1959]

Originally Posted by Dragncar

Roller bearings are one of the reasons Germany lost WWII. Tanks do not need roller crank bearings, but they had them. Cost,time=lose.

OP, first thing you need to do is cut your oil filter apart and see what you have going on.

Ball bearings - we bombed their ball bearing plants and this was a part of what ended the war, shortage of ball bearings.

[MarkS57]

Originally Posted by PontiacJim1959

Ball bearings - we bombed their ball bearing plants and this was a part of what ended the war, shortage of ball bearings.

Yep, Bremen for one. We lost a lot of guys in those daylight bombing raids of that damn city.

The M4 vs the Pershing- lot of differing opinions on that one. One being why in the world did we keep trying to prop up the M4 instead of going all out on getting the Pershing into the war earlier.

Crower still making good stuff. I was able to get my set of Pontiac Sportsman rods at "close out" special in July but it took some time to get them. They are sweet looking for certain and well balanced.

[Scarebird]

Originally Posted by MarkS57

...One being why in the world did we keep trying to prop up the M4 instead of going all out on getting the Pershing into the war earlier...

This may help on that subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQggt4Co54A