Are These Prices To High?? Help!!

[PaulJohnson]

I went to cummins this morning to pick up my engine rebuild parts and almost had a heart attack!!!

Standard rod bearing around $9 each top and bottom
10 thousands oversized around $40 each top and bottom

Standard main bearings $44 for the entire set
10 thousands oversized $300 for the entire set

This seem ridiculous to me to mark up oversized bearing this much. Anyone have anywhere else I can get these cheaper? The prices on the oversized pistons verse the standard are very close (within $10 a piston).

 

[JWadford]

are the crank journals rough, did you have it ground ??? the 5. 9 cranks seem to be tough, i wiped out a set of main and rod journal bearings and was able to just have the crank polished and used standard bearings, it was right in the middle of max and min spec which worked out so i could run it pretty hard right after start up, i would look into clevite as they may have a oversized cummins bearings for less than the cummins dealer

 

[sag2]

My kid ran into that on his Neon. $4. 00 for OEM rod bearings std. , $34. 00 for OEM . 010 bearings. It was no better aftermarket. There is just no demand for the oversize parts so the price is higher.
Now this was interesting, I just looked up bearings for 2006 5. 9 and std set was $167. 00, . 010 was $498. 00, . 020 and . 030 were both $199. 00. Rod bearings were the same, std, $14. 00, . 010 $119. 00, . 020 and . 030 were $16. 00. The parts catalog says it takes six std rod bearings and only one undersize so you might be wise to call a dealer that stocks the . 010 under rod bearing and have them verify if it is a single bearing or six.

 

[PaulJohnson]

are the crank journals rough, did you have it ground ??? the 5. 9 cranks seem to be tough, i wiped out a set of main and rod journal bearings and was able to just have the crank polished and used standard bearings, it was right in the middle of max and min spec which worked out so i could run it pretty hard right after start up, i would look into clevite as they may have a oversized cummins bearings for less than the cummins dealer

The machine shop said that the crank was in great shape... ... . He wanted to grind 10 thousands off just to clean it up. I don't think he was expecting the price to jump up so much or he would have just polished it.

 

[sag2]

He might as well grind it to . 020 and you are back to std prices. In fact it would probably pay to pay him to grind it again!

 

[PaulJohnson]

He might as well grind it to . 020 and you are back to std prices. In fact it would probably pay to pay him to grind it again!

I thought the same thing, but cummins shows the price to be about the same for 10 20 and 30 over. Just gonna pony up and buy'em

 

[sag2]

Might be true for Cummins but check the dealer prices first. I didn't know what year you had so I used 2006 and they were priced as stated.

 

[bheiting]

Don't ever go in buy anything at the Cummins parts counter. Call in and set up an
account with a sales rep. They will usually cut you a deal (my experience 50%) so
they can pad their sales figures. Have them hold the parts at will call. Somebody on
these forums got a heck of a deal on Fleet Guard filters at a Kenworth dealership. Same
procedure.