Should we worry?

[jelloslug]

I ordered my rod bearings today and the guy at NAPA said that he is only showing 32 bearings (minus the 6 I just bought) in the country and there at Clevites warehouse. Should we worry? Is this a sign that rod bearings are about to become expensive?

 

[Yamaha V6]

Nah, no worries at all.

BTW, there are now 12 less. thumb

 

[MOSHO92]

ummm scary. I get so worried sometimes...I have spent $5K on my baby in the last 2 years. One day the oil pump could go and ive just lost a huge investment. I hope we quickly find a new source of rod bearings (and valve shims for that matter).

 

[SolidState]

at the moment, I don't think clevite is going to discontiue them, as it seems to be a hot ticket item for the SHO....

 

[Yamaha V6]

Exactly. With Clevite, they're a large enough company (huge parents actually).

I just took a look at what I had over the next two months (including my 95 ATX coming up on 100k soon - the point where I wanted to do my own bearings), and figured now's a good of a time as any.

 

[jelloslug]

Im figguring that with rod bearings being a popular maintance Item recently thaty they just might be a bit low.

 

[SHOguy 92]

valve shim's im about 95% sure you can use the yamaha motor cycle shim's so i doubt we'll be running out.

 

[jelloslug]

valve shim's im about 95% sure you can use the yamaha motor cycle shim's so i doubt we'll be running out.

We were talking about rod bearings. thumb And yes, you can use motor cycle shims.

 

[Yamaha V6]

And someone mentioned finding a new source of valve shims in this thread, which is what he was answering. wink

And yes, 29mm Kawasaki / whomever shims do work and are an established replacement. They are not cheaper however. Scott Patterson will be posting shortly about the cheapest places to find them.

FYI (not to hijack the thread)...
I took an hour yesterday to sort my used shims, and I'm guessing I've got about 1,000 of them now. Going to be considering selling them.

 

[jelloslug]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I would love to see your parts stash.

 

[Axianator]

jelloslug:
I ordered my rod bearings today and the guy at NAPA said that he is only showing 32 bearings (minus the 6 I just bought) in the country and there at Clevites warehouse. Should we worry? Is this a sign that rod bearings are about to become expensive?

hee hee, and I just decreased the national supply by 6 (sets) myself.

Ordered mine last Wednesday. They should be in sometime this week.

As Fred said, I wouldn't worry. Clevite is a large company and I doubt that production for our rod bearings will be ending any time soon.

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