floating flatheads

[Greg Hermann]

>Pardon me for interrupting the spirited repartee, but what
>the heck is a floating bearing, Greg? I know about inserts
>and rollers, have poured and bored babbit bushes...
>Piston pins "float" in rod bushes - Unless they don't.
>Perhaps you are referring to dip/splash oiling schemes, as
>opposed to pressure lubrication?
>Anyway, would appreciate an elaboration.
>
>Thanks, Jack

There is clearance between the bearing insert and the housing, as well as
between the bearing insert and its journal. Sometimes, such a bearing is
pinned to the housing, as in turbochargers (if you have a copy of the
McInnes book, there is a write up on them, as applied to turbos, in there).

I believe that for a while, like in the late forties, floating rod bearing
were the supposedly "hot set-up" to have in a lakester flatty.

Didn't mean to be quite so sharp with the guy, but I really do HATE to see
so much mis-info coming from one source, all at once, with such an
authoritative tone! After all--there do seem to be some on the list who
really want to learn, and that kind of stuff does not help them at all!

As far as I am concerned--twenty years of maintaining farm equipment in the
way that most of that poor stuff gets taken care of is twenty years of
doing things wrong that the guy needs to un-learn!

Regards, Greg