So... who has been brave enough to DIY Main Bearing swap?

Okay guys, so I dropped the pan to figure out the source of my oil leak (bad gasket BTW) and as I was draining the oil I saw a bunch of metal crowded around the pick up tube. However it never interfered with the Oil Pressure. I've been having problems with the Electrical oil pressure sending unit, but the mechanical one has been showing consistant pressure since I installed it.

Sorry for drifting off. those metal shards were pieces of my thrust washers.

So my question is with me dropping the oil pan, and taking the #7 Main cap off, I removed the bearing to check its condition. It looked like a normal wear about 35X,XXX miles on it. I read that on the Main bearings only the bottom one wears out. So Im kinda wanting to swap those main bearings, at least the bottom ones.

Has anyone ever swapped their own bearings? did you do Main and Rod?
Thank you

If I do end up swapping them, I'll be sure to take lots of pictures for future references.

 

I am thinking who ever overhauled it. either reused the washers or probably put them in backwards. Either that or I need to avoid jobs with a lot of loose dirt, the previous day before I dropped the pan, I spent a few minutes spinning out in the dirt, maybe that broke them.

I've been reading the service manual like crazy now and I still do not want to check the connecting rods because I read that those tighten on sequence. So far I just unbolted the #7 main cap to get to the washers, I dropped the liner to check it out. and I forgot about the dowel pin, I hope that thing stayed up there.

 

I add that plastic in between the crank and bearing sleeve?

 

Lol I bought the whole kit for 220 I'm going to install the seperate thrust washers and if that fixes the problem I will do the bearing job when the temperature cools down

 

Yessir oil prssure is perfect. Oil still comes out clean but I will be taking a sample to send it for an analysts