C-A Automatic Bearing Cap
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2026 8:02 am
From ‘Ford Dealer and Service Field’ of November 1927.
I haven’t seen anything else quite like this. A useful accessory if it works. $65 in today’s money. However, The more I think about it, the more doubts I have. The actual bearing part must be shorter than normal, and that would have to be sized, bored, shimmed or scraped to suit the crank. And then the moving thrust component would have to be made to slide, but not be so loose as to tilt when pushed only at one point by the wedge.
Or did the whole half bearing slide? If so, it wasn't clamped tight.
Has anyone ever encountered one of these?
I haven’t seen anything else quite like this. A useful accessory if it works. $65 in today’s money. However, The more I think about it, the more doubts I have. The actual bearing part must be shorter than normal, and that would have to be sized, bored, shimmed or scraped to suit the crank. And then the moving thrust component would have to be made to slide, but not be so loose as to tilt when pushed only at one point by the wedge.
Or did the whole half bearing slide? If so, it wasn't clamped tight.
Has anyone ever encountered one of these?