I got the SoloRu engine completely torn down and found the bad bearing. I added the pictures to the engine rebuild (take 2) album. It wasn't a spun bearing after all. In fact, all the bearings looked fine, except for the rod bearing for cylinder #1. The bearing was still in the right place and didn't spin within it's journal in ways it's not intended. It appears instead to have disintegrated, or at least it was trying to. The bearing surface was flaking off and it's those flakes that I found in the oil pan.

I've got the initial pictures of the damage and the engine looks like it's going to need a rebuild before it runs again. Hopefully, I can do this without spending too much money since I can remember all the pitfalls I made the first that made it so much more expensive than it had to be.

Anyway, here's the carnage. Not much to see except a bunch of glittery metal pieces in the oil pan.

-N

I spun a rod bearing, which means my 9,000 mile old engine will need another rebuild. Hopefully, this won't hurt _too_ much. But it's gonna hurt a lot, I know.
-N

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