Reply To: Restoration update and cool accessories

[Gregory Long]

David: do you remember the ’31 club brougham I looked at that was not far from you in Virginia? That car’s babbitt in the rods had broken into numerous pieces.

There is a good thread on this message board started by Bill Morris showing the fractured babbitt in Wilma’s car.

And Ernie Follis’ beautiful ’29 roadster that won the Weis Trophy in ’06 at the Redmond Oregon meet, had a rod knock develop on a tour at the meet. Ernie said he’d looked at the bearings a year or two earlier, measured them and the crank, and had new-spec oil clearances, yet the babbitt shattered into many pieces just a few hundred miles later.

Greg Long