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INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by John bevardos » Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:47 pm

Has anyone been using the Snyder inserted rods with splash have any reports on how they are holding up?

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Kerry » Thu Jun 06, 2019 7:13 pm

I'd like to see some feed back on this as well, I fitted up a scat with them for a club member a few weeks ago and another to do as well, making it clear that the supply vendors only recommend to use with a oil pump.
Chev have had replacement dipper rods with shells for years, the 6 cyl is far more HP and revs than a T, so should they fail in a T??

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Mark Gregush » Thu Jun 06, 2019 7:37 pm

Up until the 50's the 6 cylinder, Chevrolet used poured Babbitt rods with inserts on the mains only.
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas! :shock:

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Kerry » Thu Jun 06, 2019 8:22 pm

Mark.
I said replacement! they have been available for chevs with a rod bearing insert for years.

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Mark Gregush » Thu Jun 06, 2019 8:44 pm

Thanks, got it.
I know the voices aren't real but damn they have some good ideas! :shock:

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by 26modeltt » Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:19 pm

John,

Running insert bearings with splash lubrication and SCAT stroker with Snyder's forged insert bearing rods in my '26 TT. Currently, 8000 plus miles on the TT.

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Tim Williams » Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:47 pm

I would say if you are going through all of it, Scat and insert rod bearings, I would just run pressure to them

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by kmatt » Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:55 am

John, I have a lot of experience with the Chevy 216 and insert rod bearings and the stock ones. It still uses a low pressure oil pump.The biggest problem on the 216 is to get the oil spray pipes targeted correctly to spray oil at the dipper. I had to borrow a targeting tool and never found one for sale. With the Model T engine and inserts if you don't use a oil pump you won't get enough oil flow for the inserts. If you use a pump you might as well drill the crank for pressure to the rods fed from the mains, it's not worth pluming for rod spray like a Chevy 216.


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Kerry » Fri Jun 07, 2019 4:14 am

Kevin,
Do you know how many degrees of the crank rotation the oil spray set up would hit it's target of the dipper? would it be more than the oil dip of a T ?

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by kmatt » Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:56 pm

Frank, I don't know the target info in crank deg's of rotation, the spray hits the dipper a little before BDC above the dip tray that fills with oil, and would hit the bottom of the rod a little after it leaves the dip tray. The targeting left or right is the more important than up or down a little off so that the dip tray fills with oil on the rods up stroke.


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by kmatt » Sat Jun 08, 2019 2:48 am

Thanks Herman for the pictures.

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by John Warren » Sun Jun 09, 2019 7:49 pm

My new rebuilt model A engine for my race car runs insert bearings mains and rods. It still has the original oil system. Main bearings are just offered oil from the valve galley and rods still just get oil from the dip trays. I have talked to an owner that has five engines from the same builder with no trouble and highest mile engine at 61,000 miles. The builder is Ron Kelley Designs, he has had many engines in the great race with great success. He doesn’t recommend drilling the crank because it will cause them to break. So I guess I am saying they should work well.
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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Les Schubert » Sun Jun 09, 2019 8:45 pm

Good thing I didn’t know that drilling A cranks causes them to break. Otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to drive for many thousands of miles with a engine that can easily rev to 4500 rpm!! I will just keep doing them I think!!

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Henry K. Lee » Sun Jun 09, 2019 9:01 pm

Amen Brother Les!

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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by kmatt » Mon Jun 10, 2019 2:30 pm

If you must run inserts in a splash oil system make sure to change the oil often. The insert bearings are steel shells with a relatively thin bearing material as opposed to a poured Babbitt bearing. The crud in the oil will be harder on the thin bearing with out the flow, and hopefully filtered, oil in a pressure system.


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Scottio » Mon Jun 10, 2019 3:54 pm

Hi John. It’s been a while. I am running those insert bearings and a scat stroked crank and the splash oil system for over 4 years now with no complaints. If I was to do it again I would go with the stock stroke scat crank. The stroker crank just had no advantage. Also I’ll mention the metal timing gears I used work great but are noisy.


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by John bevardos » Mon Jun 10, 2019 4:18 pm

Hi Scott,
yes it has . How many miles have you logged since the installation?


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Erik Barrett » Mon Jun 10, 2019 4:33 pm

Insert bearings really like filtered oil. So the guys running them on splash should change the oil quite frequently.


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Kerry » Mon Jun 10, 2019 5:52 pm

Our first home grown Ford 1960, had a spin on oil filter but our first GM's 1948, no filter until 1963.
Those, what we called grey engines in the GM holden 48 to 1962 were still well known for 100'000 miles + and some with out to regular oil changes, no speed limits back then either. Steel- copper backed babbitt slip in bearings.


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by modernbeat » Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:46 pm

Called Snyders about these rods. While they have some existing stock in undersized inserts, they are sold out of "standard" sized inserts. And they reported that they don't plan on making any more.

Called a few dealers that sold them, Langs, Macs, and since they were such slow sellers they don't stock them. So it looks like no more rods with standard inserts, and no replacement standard inserts.
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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Scottio » Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:09 pm

John bevardos wrote:
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Hi Scott,
yes it has . How many miles have you logged since the installation?
It’s hard to say how many miles. I was driving it every day but just around town. Maybe 15 miles or less per day. Last November I got sick and I’m just now getting out again. So maybe 2k to 3k average per year for the past 4 years.


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by tman1913 » Tue Jul 16, 2019 12:39 am

Check with Scat. Last week I spoke with Tom and he said they have made a standard Model T rods that use an insert or can be Babbitted
Now an opinion, our T engine is very dirty and running inserts without filtered oil is asking for problems. Yes it is done but many have failed


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by modeltbarn » Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:32 am

I'm not trying to hijack the thread here, but since the SCAT rods were mentioned.....

I have a set of the SCAT rods made for babbit still new in the box, I don't have an engine to put them in. I'd sell them if you are interested.


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by modernbeat » Tue Jul 16, 2019 3:09 pm

I had considered using the Scat babbitt rods, but the few guys that I called about pouring babbitt in them and then fitting them to my crank quoted me $850++ and booked into 2020.

Frankly, I'd prefer using a floating pin style rod with a modern piston.
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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by Roar_Sand » Wed Jul 24, 2019 10:30 pm

Eric Barrett,
21 milloin VW aircooled Beetles were built with inser bearings and no oil filter. Can't be too bad, methinks.


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Re: INSERT ROD BEARINGS--LONG TEM REPORT?

Post by modernbeat » Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:38 am

Roar, yes, the VW ran with inserts and without a filter, but they didn't have transmission bands or any cast iron components doing their part to contaminate the oil.

That said, I'd still run inserts if they were available. With the limited use the car would see, oil changes every 500-700 miles aren't unreasonable.
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