At 0:00 +1000 14/10/97, Paul Burr wrote:
>John; The side with the oil grooves faces the block. The smooth side,
>which is the actual bearing surface, faces the crankshaft. Simple, eh?
At 10:23 +1000 14/10/97, James H. Davis, Jr. wrote:
>John,
>Install the thrust washers so that the side with the 2 groves face the
>crank. And you're right, the manuals make something simple seem
>difficult.
Simple? Perhaps we should take a vote on this. I hope that we can reach
consenus before I need to change my thrust washers.
My view is that the oil grooves should be in the bearing surface and face
the crank (assuming that the TW remains stationary with respect to the
block - why provide lubrication for a fixed interface). But then, I have
only ever seen a photograph of a thrust washer.
There would seem to be a market for bidirectional thrust washers.
Trevor Jordan
74 TR6 CF29281U
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