[juanbenae]

the 996 gt3 bearing will work for rods & mains on a 3L. I had gycos shipped, did a bit more research and went with the gt3 set and shipped the other stuff back. the glycos I got had a few visible scratches on the bearing surfaces and many other knicks & such that I did not have to even put my reading specs on to see.... the gt3 units were significantly nicer. only seems to reason that the tooling for the new stuff is newer, less warn??. I think horrible storage of them prior to packaging, and possibly old tooling contributed to the blemishes I experienced. by tooling I mean the molds and such they are produced with. I assumed they are pressed into a mold when near molten..