Engine Manual 4 – 9 Metal selection, mating
Conrod Bearing
Caution:
• When you change the conrod bearing use the table to look up the crankshaft pin and conrod marks.
• When you fit the bearing, ensure that you measure the oil clearance along the axial direction.

Conrod bearing table
Crankshaft pin mating mark Conrod mating mark
1 2 3 4
Bearing table (translator’s note: table below this one)
A Red Pink Yellow Green
B Pink Yellow Green Brown
C Yellow Green Brown Black
D Green Brown Black Blue

Note that the oil clearance may have expanded following any incident.
These are set up so that, the oil clearance is between are 0.020mm to 0.038mm.

Colour selection table
Note that the bearing thickness is 1.5mm

Mark Colour mark Data
G Red -0.005mm to -0.008mm
F Pink -0.002mm to 0.005mm
E Yellow +0.001mm to 0.002mm
D Green +0.004mm to +0.001mm
C Brown +0.007mm to +0.004mm
B Black +0.010mm to +0.007mm
A Blue +0.013mm to +0.010mm

Each bearing colour goes up in 0.003mm increments.
Image top right (crankshaft)
No1 pin
No3 pin
Conrod bearing mating mark stamp position
Image centre right (conrod main bearing end) – shows position of mating mark
Image bottom right (shell bearing) – align the notch in the correct place. Note the colour mark on the side of the shell.