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Originally posted by Diesel Power
You have me scratching my head on how you can only have 5 mains in an inline 6 cylinder engine. You have front and rear main bearings, and one main between each cylinder for 7 mains. Cutting back to every other cylinder (which would be a VERY fragile arrangement), would drop back to 4 mains on the crank. 
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Oops! Sorry. You're right. 4 would be the right number. I got screwed up thinking about 4-bangers with 3 mains. My bad! 
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