Where are the bearings on car engine?

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The bearings in a car engine are most likely the main bearings and connecting rod bearings.

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The main bearings [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M... are located between the crank-shaft and the engine block itself. These are usually replaced during a complete rebuild of the engine.

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The connecting rod [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... bearings are between the crank-shaft and the connecting rod. These are easier and more routine to be replaced but it is ill advised to do so unless you have an excellent knowledge of the workigns of a piston driven internal compustion engine.

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THE BEARINGS ARE ON THE CRANKSHAFT WHICK IS LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ENGINE

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they are inside of it,main and rod bearings.You have to rebuild the whole engine if they have gone bad

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There are not any bearings on a car engine but some inside of it.
Most often what's referred to as bearing's are the crankshaft and connecting rod bearing's

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There are three main sets of bearings
The crankshaft bearings hold the crankshaft smoothly as it spins and the engine generates power
Rod bearings at the top of the crankshaft rods where they attach to the pistons.
The camshaft(s) have bearings so they will ride easily as they openm and close the valves.

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There are also bearings in the starter, the alternator, the smog pump, the turbocharger if it has one, and a bearing for the distributer, there are bearing surfaces on the rocker arms which open and close the valves also.

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In other words there are a lot of wear areas in an engine and they all need bearings

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which ones? you have rod bearings they are at the end of the rod that carries the piston you haave crank bearings they are at the end of the crank shaft both sides you have cam bearings they are on both sides of the cam. The crank and rod bearings are located in the oil pan on the bottem end of the engine the cam bearings are at the top end of your engine for ove head cms and lower if you have push rods and lifters. any where yo uhave a spinning , round shaft. you have a race and then you have a bearing that fits into it and both of these are around the shaft which in turn fits ito a recess that holds the race and it requires either grease or oil to lube it with out that they would weld to the shaft. your wheel bearings would be a good example of a bearing set up except you have a forward bearing or front bearings and you have a rear bearing which are located in the hub of your wheel and fitted over the wheel shaft. alot of bearings to dot he job

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car bearing is installed in the lower half or bottom half . it is made out of several different material .with no ball or ball bearing. there are two types of bearing main and connecting rod bearing.the main bearing is is where the crankshaft sits to the engine block with a cap.for info purpose the crank floats between the bearing .on the upper there is also bearing for the camshaft which works on same principle

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Bearings on a car engine? Well, there is bearings on the crank shaft attaching to the piston rod, and on each end of crank where crank goes into block on the front and out the rear to transmission. These bearing are actually a piece of metal and not ball bearing type bearing.

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All other bearings on like pulley bearings, alternator bearings, and water pump bearings and etc. which are outside of the engine. And do not forget bearings in the transmission.

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well you got bearings on the cam,bearings on the crankshaft.on the crank,theres rod bearings that hook to the connecting rods and theres main bearings that holds the crank in place.

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