[Christoph]

Thank you all for your suggestions.
I really apprechiate.
I will more pics of all bearings in the next 2 postings....

@ 100IH
Ja - or maybe it was done by the owner with big hope and big money and he gave it to a Pro who made just money out of that.

@ tbirdtbird
Thank you – I agree in each statement.

I would love to learn and try to scrape.

BTW I had phonecalls with Steve ( at Bert`s) as I bought lots of parts there lately, but he sadly couldn’t offer any used cap.
They don’t sell Babbitt-caps anymore as they just sell inserts and insert-engines.
Anyhow I like to buy there, as they seem to have lots of original-parts available.

Assuming that I wont be putting many miles ON THAT SPARE is correct; If I redo it myself, it will stay a spare.
The actual engine was bought all new (inserts and counterbalanced and oil-pressurized and filtert) but already got
about 50`000 miles and I guess it wont have everlasting life. As so I need a spare ….
I could buy another All-new and shiny, but I want to learn about things myself.

Regarding Babbitt-shops over here:
Lots of Germans had “Wirtschaftwunder” after WW2; As so, they put everything old to the junk.
Well - Not my father, as he was to young for WW2 and he bought his first car in the 1970s (around the time, I bought my first car too….)
However there where not to many pre-war-cars left ( most of them to be crushed during war) and actually most pre-war-cars in germany
came from other countries (as my Tudor came from Netherlands)
Without old cars there is not to many Babbit-Specialists over here
The ones to be around are incredible expensive – Ja- it seems to be a lost art.

@ Herm
Thank you so much for your posting.
I really appreciate your experience.
Ja – I will send pics of the other bearings (as soon as I made some - which might be Saturday).

I thought it might be a cold pour – thank you for your confirmation.

If I cant fix that myself, I will give the engine to Peter Glasmacher in Belgium (who made my actual engine)
and he will do his Pro-Work and put in inserts.

Sending an engine to USA and back does not make sense and is EXPENSIVE (transportation and customs)
Additional, most US-Pro`s refuse to give Overseas-warranty (due to transportation.costs).

@ Glenn
Hmmm
Might work in certain cases, but as my cap seems to be a could-pour, I guess that failure will increase way to soon.


Thank you all again
I will post some pics of the other Babbitts soon