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Old 02-17-2026, 08:53 AM   #21
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Have you ever heard of people using shoe leather to shim up a rod bearing? My dad said he bought an early Ford that was said to be overhauled but they had not gotten it to fire up. Dad being confident he could make it run bought it. He ended up going into it and found it was misrepresented. It had shoe leather in for rod bearings. I've seen others talk of it too. Apparently that was somewhat common back in the day.
My dad talked of shoe leather and also pork rines too.
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