sciondan
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- Oct 27, 2011
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valley,
Illinois
OK, so after endless searching on the subject I have found little on this. My problem is I spun a balance shaft bearing, the upper front shaft. I bought a BSE kit and was not able to use the bearing in the kit to block off the oil hole due to the original bearing spinning in it's bore. I searched for a solution and found that Mitsubishi had a factory drilled path to this bearing. It was plugged off with a phillips plug under the exhaust manifold. So going off the two threads I found I tapped this hole and put a bolt in that blocks the oil path to that bearing. So my main question is by putting this bolt in am I only blocking oil to the balance shaft bearing, or could I possibly be blocking off more than that? Honestly after all the time and money I'm putting into this car I want to be 100%sure that when I fire it up I won't destroy another bearing due to blocking off it's oil feed. So for those that had this happen to them and did this fix please chime in. I guess the reason I'm worried is this was easier than flipping the bearing when doing a BSE with the engine still in the car, so why doesn't everyone do it?
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