Missing Rollers.... a Mystery

[GeorgeP1111]

I've been refreshing my CA77 motor. A few weeks back I pulled the crank shaft out, put it on the bench on a shop rag and pulled the end roller bearing off. Of course all the little rollers fell out into a nice pile on the rag so I scooped up the rollers, inner/outer races and tagged/bagged them just as I have been doing with all of the disassembly. Fast forward to yesterday, I grab the roller bearing bag and laid out the parts for cleaning.... oop's.... only 16 rollers not 20... What The ??? 4 missing rollers.

Ok, so I must have dropped them when I removed the bearing, Right? This one of two possibilities, the other is.... of which we will not speak. Anyhow, the work bench is large and uncluttered and the bearing was pulled while on a clean flat rag so a roller rolling off the bench (or anywhere for that matter) is very unlikely, and 4 of them doing that... even less. Anyhow, I crawled around on the tile floor looking all over twice, my wife did it once, no rollers... not even one. So I then went through all my bags of everything that I had taken apart from the motor... twice, no rollers... not even one. Old parts, new parts, nada... zip, no rollers... not even one.

This motor had been worked on by someone in it's past. The second possibility, the one of which we will not speak??

4 new rollers are on the way, $1 each.... Uff Da!!

Still Havin Fun

George

[GeorgeP1111]

Oops, this was suppose to be posted in the Motors section.... sorry.

George

[mike1969]

It's what my Russian grandfather called "Miscadietys". Similar to gremlins. They are always stealing our small parts and tools!

[jensen]

Hi,

A 1961 engine which I did rebuild a few years ago, didn't have them complete either, same with the gear on the kick shaft, and I did not drop them. The engine was heavily "worked on".

I, personally, would change all of them at once, not only four of them, remember, this is a bearing with a high load, and a new crank is expensive.

Jensen