| There were some scratches on the cylinder wall so I decided to pull the block apart, even if your cylinder walls are ok it might be worth it to replace the bearings. The bearings were worn to the copper on a JSpec "50000km" engine that only had another 10,000 miles on it. IMO it would suck to be driving around on worn bearings when you can put some fresh new ones in yourself with very little effort. Here are pics of my bearings:

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