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Old 06-10-2008, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by babymog View Post
Man, that bearing outer surface looks like hot-rolled steel. Is it as bad as it looks?
You clearly know a lot more about this than I do. I have no idea from looking how the steel was produced. All I noticed were that the surfaces were not rough and unfinished. Is there a problem with "hot-rolled steel" in this application? I certainly don't want something that will starting leaking bits of steel into my timing chain.
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