With all the other well thought out and "purpose designed" items in the MG, I
can't understand your skepticism. I think MG had a big box of the graphite
bearings in the warehouse (they got 'em cheap), and were determined to use
them.
"Peter C." wrote:
> At 09:32 AM 10/21/1999 , Charley & Peggy Robinson wrote:
> > Let's face facts boys an' girls, the only place we see the graphite
> >throwout bushings is in our LBCs. The millions of other stick shift
> >cars/trucks on the road have roller or ball bearings in them. Now just
> >how bad can the bearings be?
> >
> > CR
> Perhaps, just perhaps, those "other stick shift cars/truck" were
> _designed_ to have roller or ball bearings in them. I'm guessing that the
> choice of bearings wasn't an afterthought. Perhaps some other accomodations
> could be made to our LBCs to make better use of the non-carbon bearings...
> ie. change in arm or modification of a quill.
> Peter C
> carbon fan
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