Thanks Mark Nunnally

[BeatDaSHO]

On Saturday, I took a long trip up to Mark Nunnally's house for a little work on my baby. It took me 4 and a half hours to get to his house and that was averaging 80 mph. We replaced my rod bearings, valve adjustment, water pump, and water pump o-rings. I have 126,000 miles on my car and I figured that the bearings would be at least down to the copper (i guess i got scared or something). Well, the bearings showed just normal wear to them. They really didn't need replacing but I figured since i'm going up to college within 2 months, I might as well do them so i don't have to worry about them for a while. So anyone that is getting scared with all the posts lately about the rod bearings failing, calm urself and don't worry too much. 4 shims were out of spec for the valve adjustment. All of the work took us 11 hours to complete. I just wanted to thank Mark for everything that he did for me. He's a cool guy and he knows his stuff. Mark's wife also fed me some pizza which was damn good. I recommend him to anyone that needs work done on their SHO. Thanks again Mark. Here are three pictures of the bearings.

 

[jelloslug]

It's good to see not everyones SHO is chewing up rod bearings. thumb

 

[Blue-By-U]

Wow...they're in great shape! Didn't need to be done, but the piece of mind is great to have. Rod bearings were the first items on my car that I had changed...luckily I had them done...these are mine at a LOW 96k:

Notice cross hatching:

Too much copper for my liking:

Oh well they're done and she's running like a champ...can't wait to put in my South Bend TZ in about 2 weeks wink

 

[Bizzy]

Moving to Feedback section. wink

 

[rendyx]

jelloslug:
It's good to see not everyones SHO is chewing up rod bearings. thumb

I agree!

 

[COliveira95]

BeatDaSHO:
On Saturday, I took a long trip up to Mark Nunnally's house for a little work on my baby. It took me 4 and a half hours to get to his house and that was averaging 80 mph. We replaced my rod bearings, valve adjustment, water pump, and water pump o-rings. I have 126,000 miles on my car and I figured that the bearings would be at least down to the copper (i guess i got scared or something). Well, the bearings showed just normal wear to them. They really didn't need replacing but I figured since i'm going up to college within 2 months, I might as well do them so i don't have to worry about them for a while. So anyone that is getting scared with all the posts lately about the rod bearings failing, calm urself and don't worry too much. 4 shims were out of spec for the valve adjustment. All of the work took us 11 hours to complete. I just wanted to thank Mark for everything that he did for me. He's a cool guy and he knows his stuff. Mark's wife also fed me some pizza which was damn good. I recommend him to anyone that needs work done on their SHO. Thanks again Mark. Here are three pictures of the bearings.=

Wow, makes me wonder if they have been replaced already once before... shrug

 

[BeatDaSHO]

I had asked Mark that and he has said that those were the original ones. The original owner lives up the street from me so i'm going to ask him about it.

Greg