GT550 crankshaft bearings

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tennesseetwostroke
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GT550 crankshaft bearings

Post by tennesseetwostroke »

For anyone interested Paul Miller on ebay ( jrwdfa ) has a few sets of NOS GT550 crankshaft bearings with the oil slingers. I am getting ready for a crank rebuild and looking at some older posts these bearings are not easy to find.
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Re: GT550 crankshaft bearings

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I am convinced that Paul Miller has a cloning machine. When I rebuilt my 77 Buffalo, I bought both forward and aft NOS wiring harnesses from him. Beautiful, clean and pliable. He sold a lot of those. You could tell by the look and feel these were not something that sat on a shelf somewhere for 30+ years. They even had the OEM cloth type labels on them. Cost me around $240 for the pair. I thought it expensive at the time, but looking back they were worth twice that. That was in 2007.
I was born with nothing and still have most of it left.

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Re: GT550 crankshaft bearings

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Maybe Paul is that guy in the Sprint Time Machine commercial? He goes back in time, and buys parts at 1970's prices. :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y23VWj7wNiI
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Re: GT550 crankshaft bearings

Post by oldjapanesebikes »

Always check with your friendly pimply faced kid on the local Suzuki parts desk first eh ? They recently started selling GT550 crankshaft bearings again ............... 8)
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