Babbit

Pete, there is a guy in Ramona, Calif also. If interested I will give you the particulars.
He does a lot of them.
 
There was a guy named Sanderson in Silverton, near Salem, Oregon, but I haven't heard anything about his work. Personally, I have used Bill Barlow in Bend and would highly recommend him.
 
Just curious: Does anyone know the composition of the babbitt used in our engines? Lead, tin, aluminum, other stuff, and at what concentrations? I'm wondering if each shop has their own formulation that they found works best, or did Ford and others of the era have a "standard" mix.
 
Bill Barlow's Bearings look lke a fine piece of jewlery and the precision is outstanding. He s very particular about his product and his Babbit does not have any lead what-so-ever. I do have (somewhere) the make-up of his Babbit but it is somewhere in this huge monster of a computer and it would be best to chat with Bill himself. Our club has been using him for any years. Dick B.
 
As said above.....Bill Barlow's bearings are like a piece of jewlery. I installed a set in a fellow club members engine about 3-4wks ago, and they fit perfectly. He is very particular on the measurements of your crank that you must provide. Service is usually with-in a day or two. Not including shipping time. He will do a complete babbit and bore job on your engine if you want.
 
Wow! Thanks for the link and info. I remember helping the fellow who poured the bearings in my engine in 1962 using Bernzomatic torches to heat the block webs (my job) while he poured the bearings on his kitchen table (obviously no wife)! He instructed me to get lead, aluminum, and "block" tin - found in the cooling coils of commercial beer cooling equipment, but I don't know what else he put in. He had me drill shallow pockets into the block and caps to keep the bearings from spinning (I guess he knew how a 17 year old might drive the thing). It sat in the barn from about 1967 til we finished restoring it in 1988 and has about 12,000 miles on it now. Bearings are holding up quite well, but we feed it ice cream these days.
 
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