Axle bearing info...READ THIS

[River Beast]

My friend Jeese has a 72 Waggie. He da both axles redone about a year ago. The mech convinced him to use the sealed bearing type axle bearings with the dual seal around the outside that act as the seal instead of the open roller bearing (timkin) with the race and seal separate. Last week he noticed a shimmy from the rear and parke the wag pronto. Upon disassembly, the problem was evident... the sealed bearing grenaded within it's case splitting it in two!!! http://www.ifsja.org/ubb/eek.gif

I will take pics of it next week to show the bearing.

I always use timkin bearings and this proves why...luckily no scarring damage to the axle shaft...he now has Timkins in BOTH sides.

Lesson learned... the hard way!

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Todd
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[QUADRA-CLINT]

Good thing he parked it right away,had one blow apart on me doin about seventy,axle and tire came off flew straight up,spectators said about fifty feet in the air!!Lucky I was on a straight away.Needless to say im always checkin thier condition.huh semi floaters.

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Quadraclint
79WAgLIMITED/ 90GW

[ClarkGriswald]

I used to work at a robotics company in Kalamazoo, we had all sorts of bearings there. Strangly enough Ive seen that happen to those sealed bearings before. They are nice but I often found myself skeptical about them and would use a big syringe to inject a little grease in between the seal and the casing if they were the type you could get into that way.. Simpler is better.. Thats all I got to say about that.

But I will say, they sure are nice and handy.

[Ralph]

The first time I changed my bearings, the shop I went to only had one each of the regular set and one sealed bearing. A year later the sealed bearing was bad; just for good measure I changed them both.

[jeepbob]

Are you talking about using a sealed ball bearing instead of a tapered roller bearing??



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