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Originally Posted by rantarM3
How does the cost of replacing the bearings at 50k miles compare to pulling the whole engine and having the crank journal ground? I can only guess that replacing the bearings would be much cheaper. No?
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It should be. To pull the engine and doing work on the crank takes way more labor (thus hours).
My plan is to do it the "wrong" way by installing new OEM bearings and running 0W40. See what happens 50k miles from then.
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