PROCEDURE FOR SERVICING AND CHECKING OF THE MAIN BEARING

Safeties involved

1. Engine must be stopped.

2. Starting mechanism must be blocked and appropriate safety notice must be displayed.
3. Shut off the starting air supply.
4. Engage the turning gear.
5. Shut off lubricating oil.

Procedure for taking out or incorporating the main bearing from the crankcase window

1. Remove the lub oil connecting pipe, using detaching / attaching tool.
2. Take out the main bearing cap.
3. Insert the metal drawing out tool into the oil hole of the crankshaft.
4. Turn the crankshaft slowly clockwise as viewed from the flywheel side. When the lower
metal comes out completely from the housing face, stop turning, and remove the metal.
5. Draw out the metals every other main bearing so that the adjoining metals should never be
drawn out at the same time.

Procedure for checking and servicing of the Main Bearing

1. Check the main bearing metal periodically because as its gap with crankshaft becomes
large, escape of lubricating oil increases and lubricating oil pressure drops to cause
possible seizure and cracking.
2. Remove the main bearing and check to see if a crack took place on the sliding face.
3. Dimensional measurement is most accurate if crankshaft is detached from the bed plate,
the main bearing cap is tightened with the specific torque, and the inner diameter of the
main bearing is measured.
However to check the metal gap without detaching the crankshaft, place the lead wire of
about 0.5mm size over the crankshaft in wave form, fit the main bearing metal on top of
that, tighten that metal with the specific torque, and then measure the thickness of the
squashed lead wire. This method gives equivalent value of the metal gap.
4. When the metal gap becomes too large due to wear of the metal, replace the main bearing
metal with the new one.
5. In case the metal gap is still too large even if the metal has been replaced with the new
one, use the inner diameter undersize metal. In this case it will be necessary to grind the
crankshaft in order to correct the dimensions to agree with the undersize metal.
6. When replacing the main bearing metal or thrust metal with the respectively new one,
replace by a pair of upper and lower metals.

Procedure for checking and servicing of the Thrust metal

1. The thrust metal has been equipped to the main bearing nearest to the flywheel side.
2. Check for wear and existence of seizure of thrust metal.
3. For measuring the Thrust gap place the dial gauge, and set the same to zero. Indicating
value of the dial gauge is the thrust clearance.

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 Items Dimensions Std clearance Max. allowable Usage limit
Nomina Tolerance at assembling usage for parts
l time
Inner dia of Main +0.189 M= M= 0.25 +0.20
Bearing 180 +0.120 0.120 ~ 0.214
Outer dia of 0 Deflection
Journal -0.025 wear of 0.1
Width of datum -0.0905 N= N= 0.5 -0.4
part main -0.1495 0.0905~0.1845
bearing 86
Width of datum +0.035 +0.35
part journal 0
All dimensions in mm

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