Understanding Bearing Clearances: Part 1 - Engine Builder Magazine

Understanding Bearing Clearances: Part 1

Proper bearing clearance is a recipe that includes three key ingredients: the bearing, the crankshaft and oil.

What’s needed to keep the rotating assembly rotating? It’s a recipe that includes three key ingredients: the bearing, the crankshaft and oil. Understanding the role each part plays in this recipe is what’s needed to keep your engine bearings from failing. Steve Morris explains in part 1. Part 2 coming soon…

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