grim wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:Should I inspect those "rod bearings"? Part of me says...do it all....another part of me says...I've done too much already.....Exhaustion is kicking in....Are those bearings prone to fail?
Listen to the part of you that is saying "do it all." Doesn't matter if OTHER engine's bearings are prone to fail, yours has had that trash in the oil pump come from somewhere. And if the bigger bits ended up there, you can bet that smaller bits circulated in the oil.
How sick would you be if you got it all back together, then in a couple of thousand (or hundred) miles the rod starts knocking on the big end? Happened to me on an old babbitt rod Chevy pickup as a kid. I learned my lesson. Any time you have something difficult torn down, do it all, or regret it later.
Personally, I'd get recommedations from other riders/wrenchers for a local independant shop with the tools and knowledge to do crank/rod work. Then pull the whole crank/rod assembly and take it to them. I'm lucky in that between me, my brother, and several B-I-L... Anything we can't do ourselves, we know people/shops who can do the rest.
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