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Author Topic: Anyone out there use the new Clevite/Clemex vw rod bearings?  (Read 3002 times)
Taylor
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« on: December 21, 2012, 21:14:01 pm »
I got a set when I couldn't find any KS.  When I went to use them, the tang doesn't fit and it isn't deep enough to lock in.  Bad set? Or are they all this bad?  I am pretty disappointed as I was hoping a box with Clevie on it would be as good as their Chevy rod bearings I have used. Mahle it is I guess!
Pictures later
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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2012, 21:27:40 pm »
my Mahles seemed ok and were fine on clearance with the radi...
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2012, 20:06:17 pm »
Use the Silverlights, steel back, been working for me just fine.

Ted
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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2012, 23:24:00 pm »
IIRC, Mahle owns Clevite now.  My last set of rod bearings came in a Mahle box, but I was told that they were actually Clevites.
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« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2012, 00:54:32 am »
I went down to Adam Wiks shop and got some KS bearings abd they fit like a glove.  I am going to post a picture tonight of the Clevite bearing.  Adam told me that you have to hand fit the clevites. 
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