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Bronze bushing or babbit? Is the wear pattern all on one side or all around?



The wear pattern seems to be on opposite sides. For example at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock. It's a clevite babbit.

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when the engine was align bored the crankshaft moved up in the block a small amount. as mentioned you need to check the crankshaft/transmission alignment



The engine was rebuilt 2 years ago. We ran all year last year w zero problems. It seems weird that we would have problems now by just changing the converter.