Main Bearings for early 850

[Mr Rusty850]

Having got Christmas and New Year out of the way I decided to start the engine rebuild of my 850 engine this morning and immediately hit a problem. The engine bearings I bought are for a later 850 with narrower journals. The crank I'm using is from a 1965 engine and it's only when I've delved deeper into the info on the Minispares site that I've found that pre 69 850's had a 1.185" crank journal compared with 1.064" journals on the 69 to 85 engines. My problem is that the early, wider bearings are shown as NLA. Does anyone know where I might be able to get hold of a set of standard sized bearings for the 1.185" wide journals?

Many thanks,
Phillip

[minimk1man]

Try https://www.fwthornton.co.uk/ Very helpful company with great stock of old and obsolete bearings etc.

[Mr Rusty850]

Fab. Thank you.

[LuisM]

Hello,

I have some sets of 850 mains bearings , will check soon if I have a wider STD Side set ,

Cheers
Luís

[251 ENG]

You can use the narrower 998 / 1098 bearings with no problems

[Andrew1967]

I’ll check see what I have got

[whistler]

Think I bought mine from Somerfords. They seem to be better for mk1 parts than others.

[Spider]

They are also common to the 948 Morris Minor Block.

[Mr Rusty850]

Brilliant. Thank you for all the replies. Somerford have them in stock and I've ordered a set.

There is another thread on the site about people leaving the forum because of comments made. I'm also a member of the TR and Lancia forums. Whilst they are a very civilised bunch on the Lancia Forum some of the members of the TR are less than welcoming. By contrast I find the Mk1 Forum to be much friendlier and the level of knowledge that members have and are prepared to share is superb. It's a hugely valuable resource for people like me who haven't worked on minis for over 40 years.

Phillip