Its also common to weld the journal and turn the journals .010" under. Then you would get a set of babbitted rods for the .010" journal size. It's getting harder to find someone to do babbitting anymore, so you may have to do the insert bearing conversion as mentioned. You will just have to find out what your local shops are capable of doing.


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