[AT] I don't think that this is how to shim a bearing

[Doug Tallman]

I have to agree with Charlie that this wasn't too uncommon of a repair. 
Looks like a Fairbanks Morse engine. The engine vendors sell new bearing 
shells for these, I believe.  Doug T

On 12/2/2017 4:58 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> When I was a kid in the 50's that sort of repair wasn't too uncommon.
> I've even heard of pieces of a leather belt used for bearings.  The farmer
> might well have been a share cropper with one tractor and no money.
> He had to fix it somehow until he could do better.
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> Charlie
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> From: Henry Miller
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> My tractor was making a grinding noise so I pulled the bearings. I found
> this, looks like an old oil can or something used as a shim, as if the
> bearing was too small... That is the bearing parting line sticking
> straight up, where the oil hole should be. You can't see the hole from
> this angle, but it is right behind the shim.
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>    hank at millerfarm.com
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