Glad to help. 👍
I really have no fear of the babbited 216's if properly set up and high quality light oils are used.
In fact I think 216's actually had at least one advantage over the 235.
The only caveat to that is when the crankshaft has been ground undersize and the babbit in the rods is thicker as a consequence.
Even then, installing bearing shells in the rods will get around the issue.
I would never even consider swapping the 216 out of my '46. 🙂
It came in the truck, and it's going to stay that way.
PS
The truck gets driven regularly at 50 mph and still has the original 4.57 rear end in it.
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