WEll, I recently notice a bad vibration in the engine, even though it runs perfect with good compression. But the problem was vibration and it was getting worse. This is a mildport engine by the way, but that doesn't matter. THen, I dicided to change the oil and see if I saw anything in there that shouldn't. And it there was..all kinds of metal shavings in a copper color. Now I knew it was probably a bearing!
Then, I took the oil pan off to find a lot of sludgy flaky ****. DAMN IT!!!
I found that some how one of the 4bolts that holds the oil-pump was down therE!! I was sure they were tight when I put it together!! Next time, theres going to be lock tite I tell you!

Now its completely apart. ALL bearings are junk! Plan is this: Use a used but good e-shaft and install different stationaries with good bearings I have spare, and finally replace the rotor bearings.

THe problem is this though: I took the bearings off each rotor, and the surface the bearing goes on is scraped up and looks like the bearing was riding around some and the lock groove in the bearing came out somehow! Are these rotors now junk because at least some of the material the bearing will be on is larger then orginally? OR will new bearings solve this using the freezing the bearing and heating the rotor for installiation then for a heat shrunk fit?

 

Oh, by the way, oil pressure was normal during all this!?

 

After the main bearings spun it would have basically shut off all oiling to the E-shaft... you'd still have oil pressure but no oil to any of the bearings. (oil for rotor bearings comes from inside the shaft, oil in shaft comes from the mains)

 

Hmm....I think oil was still getting into the rotors somewhat because all the crud was in the oil-pan and passages in the center rotor housing were clean of dibree as well. The rotors bearings were free of dibree and were quite wet with oil in the passages in the rotor. The rotors don't seem at all scorched or discolored so I think they are fine since the engine was running smooth, except for the obvious odd vibration from the bad bearings. I am concerned with the rotor surface the bearing is on. Do you think its shot since the bearings were somewhat bitten into the by the bearing with tiny groves. I know you can not see it obviously, and I haven't ever dealt with bad bearings before now.