If you just couldn't do oil mods, what's an alternative?

That was some fascinating reading. Lots of into in digestible form, and not just on the bearings. Thanks for the post.

I find it intriguing that a company that has tested this, and come up with those findings still sells 3/4 and full groove bearings. A case of, "the customer wants what the customer wants" type situation? Because the way I understood that was, anything past half groove, even less then 3/4 starts taking away from upper bearing support and does nothing to help lower bearing support.

If they'd ever answer their phone I'd like to ask themthat.


The issue is getting oil to the rods. Because the Chrysler oiling system is not timed correctly you need oil to the rods full time. Full groove main bearings do that.

In 41 years, I’ve never seen a main bearing fail because it was grooved, but I’ve seen a bunch of rod bearings killed because there wasn’t any oil there.