"Shells" was a common term as well.

@@scheusselmensch5713 My grandfather called them Babbit shells.

Are you old enough to remember floor mounted dimmer switches, manual vents and vent windows?

@@Pulsatyr Heck, I've got half a dozen cars and trucks with just those things.

@@scheusselmensch5713 you're either a wise or fortunate man; perhaps both. Enjoy driving those classics, the modern stuff has no character. Kids get excited about this one or that, but they are all just transportation to me. They have exchanged 9000 sensor points for soul.

They do make inserts.

It would wear the crank too much

+1 to JAMSI

Thank you for watching!

Ain't that the truth.

@@rcnelson 1950: Here have a straight 6 or flathead v8 that makes 85 horsepower and 70 ft lbs of torque but only gets 14 miles per gallon 2019: Here have a 5.3 L V8 that makes 400 hp, 420 ft lbs of torque, and gets 18mpg city and 25 mpg highway with cylinder deactivation get 30+ mpg on the highway. Even modern 1/2 ton trucks get nearly 30mpg on the highway running on 4 of their 8 cylinders. I know which one I am choosing. You guys can live in the past if you want to. I'm well over 40 and I'll take modern engines and electronics as well as active suspension and anti lock brakes all day. I'll pull out my laptop and adjust a fuel curve 100 times more precisely, quicker, and much easier than you can open up your carb to change the jets and end up smelling like fuel all day. I've done all that and I wouldn't go back to it. I could buy a Holley or Edelbrock carb for $500-$700 or get an EFI system that will program itself for $1000 and give me better mileage and power. I can work and have worked on anything from tractors to modern German cars. I'll stick with the new stuff, it's 1000x times easier to diagnose a problem and I can verify without a doubt that the problem is fixed after I replace what was faulty. With a 1980 Trans Am I would just be guessing at my diagnoses and then driving down the road after I fix it hoping I made the right call. Quit blaming modern technology. You could learn to work on modern cars just as easily as I did. It doesn't take a rocket scientist it just takes someone willing to spend a few hours and learn something new. A rod knock in a modern car isn't a write-off anyway. Most folks would rather just buy a new vehicle than spend $3000-$4000 on a new motor and the labor to install it. Taking the old one out and rebuilding it wouldn't be much cheaper and people aren't willing or able to throw $4000 cash at a vehicle that is 10+ years old with 200k+ miles. Engines aren't any harder to rebuild than they were back then. They rebuilt them because their car was likely only 3 or 4 years old and the horrible casting and machining of the engine and components meant that they had to be rebuilt a lot more often. It was just an accepted fact of life that before 100k miles you were absolutely going to be taking out your engine and hauling it to the machine shop. By the way it costs a lot more to machine and rebuild an old Model A motor in 2019 than it does to rebuild and machine a small block Ford or Chevy motor, even an LS engine is less expensive to rehab than something 80+ years old. I promise you Hagerty spent 3 or 4 times what it would cost to take the LS out of my truck and take it to the machine shop and get it completely rebuilt and back in my truck. If a Model A cost $700 in 1930 that adjusts to $10,754 in 2019. $10,700 for a complete car. The top of the line Town Car version was about 2x that cost $1500 in 1930 so $20k in 2019 money. Just rebuilding that motor would eat up most of $10,000 in 2019 to do it properly. Old technology with huge tolerances and poor performance and economy. Nobody in their right mind can say "they did it better back then." The past isn't better you just think it was because you aren't living in it. We always look back on "the good old days" and remember how wonderful everything was. Humans have a tendency to forget most of the bad things and unpleasant times we went through. It's how we carry on and move forward psychologically. We remember what made us happy and the things we enjoyed. I wouldn't drive a classic car unless it had a drivetrain with fuel injection and a 6 speed manual to go along with a modern suspension and disc brakes all the way around. I've driven enough restored classics to know they drive like garbage, ride like garbage, and stop like garbage with the stock parts on them. There is a reason things aren't the way they used to be and it's because engineering and technology have moved on and improved or replaced all that old tech. A new Coyote engine in a 65 Mustang or an LS in a old Camaro with other upgrades make those cars better then they ever could have dreamed of being when new. If they could have done it in 1920 the way we do it now you can bet your butt they would have because it's simply much better and more precise. Old isn't better folks, it's just old. We have 10x better now than we did then. People who had cars in the 1920s and 30s had to work on them. They broke down constantly even when they were new and there wasn't a dealership with a warranty to fix all your problems. My grandmother is 98 and she can tell you about all the times her daddys brand new car broke down and he had to work on it right there on the side of the road or they weren't going to get where they were going. She has said it was horrible how cars used to be when she was a child in the 30s. They were unreliable hunks of garbage no matter how well you tried to maintain them. They would and often did break down anyway. You can live in the past and let the world pass you by. You can be like the old folks were in the 1950s complaining about Rock and Roll music or the folks in 1910 complaining about motor cars spooking their horses. Or, you can move forward and keep yourself an informed and productive person. There is zero reason you can't work on a modern vehicle with an internal combustion engine just like you would have an older vehicle. Some of the tools have changed, you will need a scan tool. For engine codes you can get scanners for as little as $20 that connect to your smart phone. For other modules you might need to spend $250 to $500 for a more advanced tool but they will let you find issues in all the vehicles systems and then troubleshooting the cause of those issues is a lot easier. Don't be intimidated by technology, grab it by the short hairs and make modern technology do the work for you. Never quit learning new things, that's what makes life worth living. I know guys who have been auto technicians for 30 and 40 or more years and they love modern cars. They would all agree they are much easier to troubleshoot. An alternator on a 1970 Ford truck going bad needed to be removed and replaced just like one on a 2019 Ford truck. Most things on cars are remove and replace repairs and for the most part they always have been. Sitting around complaining that things aren't how they used to be is a dead end street. You won't get anywhere and you won't learn anything. That sure isn't how I want to live my life. Personally I'm sick of all the comments on KZfaq about how "they knew how to build them back then" or "it's too bad they don't build them like they used to." If it was the best way to do things we would still be doing it. We learn something new and find better ways to do things constantly. If they built the perfect car in the 1930s we would still be building it the exact same way today. The fact that we don't should be a pretty good hint that it wasn't all sunshine and butterflies when it came to building cars.

​@@velvetjones 100% agreed and I enjoyed reading your post. I've driven some v8 carb'd 65-68 mustangs with stock suspension and everything, and although they were pretty quick, they felt unsafe to drive at high speeds especially without abs and all the gimmicks of a modern car. They are fun to drive, but I'd much rather drive a modern car.

@@velvetjones All true, but it took longer to read your rant than it did to watch the video. My rant is regarding things happening in this millenium. Accounting says to buy the cheapest foreign little irreplaceable bits that go into the hard-to-reach sub-assemblies that go behind everything else. You guessed it, I could replace 3 nylon timing gears on a 60's Chev by the time you get everything else out before removing the modern car's $700 sub-assembly with a bad 0.1 mF capacitor inside that came from Where-the-heck-istan..

@@velvetjones I mostly agree. Lemme explain I dislike bleeding edge tech shits buggier than a hookers underwear, there are alot of cars i wont touch because some of the ultra modern cars (lets be fair and say the last 15 years or so) problems are cause BECAUSE technology behind a given operation is throwin up error codes when mechanically they are sound (and im not talking about the idiot codes like for oil/trans you know the captain obvious stuff) On modern cars for instance a P0420 = catalytic converter issue....usually it throws off a code when there is an efficiency curve not being met (on some of the ultra modern its set to 99 98 percent of meeting said curve before throwing up a code) as stupid as that is it will fail you in most states that require emissions testing. I currently drive a 95 toyota corrola it has most of the aforementioned tech (way older versions of said tech) When that car was made every piece of tech that was placed in it was more or less very well established to limit potential failures And you will see alot of cars like that still buzzing around town or where ever you live. Cars have gotten so advanced that the run of the mill mechanic cant even have a prayer on fixing them unless its a basic issue. There is more i wanted to say but I just woke up.....

No scraping.Its too slow. At 4:40 you see the long rod thru the mains. It has teeth that cut the babbitt to size

@@pkerit308 OK. So that takes care of the mains. What about the rods??

Thank you for watching. Enjoy the ride!

Old Gear Head it makes me feel really really good inside to know there are still those out there that appreciate, and wish to preserve such objects of history and artwork

As an Ohio resident, I take pity on you if our roads are superior to yours. I was helping a friend, an immigrant from Nigeria, move his office cross town. On a road in which I thought I had destroyed my suspension, he looked at me and said, "There are no roads this good in Nigeria." All I could do is laugh.

@@Pulsatyr I grew up in Michigan and now I live in Ohio. The roads here are far superior to the roads in Michigan. They're terrible up there

@Mr. Morningstar OIlite and also 'shell' type bearings with a thin layer of some bearing material (be it babbitt, indium, even silver!) over a bronze backing, which in turn was supported by a steel shell.