Folks at world,
I have heard of sawdust, and nylon stockings for gearboxes - the latter
being more fun. But the best I experienced was a Morris 8 obtained from
the local scrap yard that was suffering big and small end failures. Being
skint students we fashioned bearings from leather and re-assembled with
gobs of molyslip the wonder molybdium bisulphate slick stuff. It ran fine
so, out of curiosity, we stripped it only to find beautifully polished
leather bearings. We put it back together and decided to sell it for #5.
A rather unpopular (rich) student bought it but as he paid his money we
told him "...it has leather bearings". He laughed as he drove away with
a shout that he would look after the leather bearings ha-ha. The car ran
for months thereafter until he went down at which time we lost touch.
At 09:38 AM 11/9/00 -0500, Michael Lupynec wrote:
>I restore my cars and bikes, (running gear and cosmetics), to the
>nth degree, but that does not mean absolutely everything has to be
>replaced, although ease of revisiting is often a consideration.
>
>If wheel bearings are not making noise and are under 100,000 miles
>old, if they have not been run extremely maladjusted or dry, if
>they have not been inappropriately pressed out, and most critical,
>if they pass a clever inspection routine after disassembly and
>wash, they can be reused.
>
>I have never heard of a catastrophic wheel brg failure. They will
>start to howl or make a grinding noise starting very lightly at
>first in the turns and then go on aggravating you forever.
>
>Back when I only had enough northern pesos for gas, we would put
>some sawdust in the grease to shut them up - or was that the
>gearbox?
>
>
>Mike L.
>60A,67E,59Bug
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Phillips, Frank <fwp@ufl.edu>
>To: 'Charley & Peggy Robinson' <ccrobins@ktc.com>
>Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Sent: November 9, 2000 8:56 AM
>Subject: RE: More on wheel bearings
>
>
>> I have spent a large amount of time reading the manuals and
>understand the
>> procedure. What I don't understand is how different types of
>bearing may or
>> may not change the procedure. I'm curious, as always, about how
>what was
>> fitted in 1968 and what I can get today has changed what needs
>to be done.
>>
>> I plan to replace the bearings because I've only had the car for
>six months
>> and am doing a complete brake job (MC, pipes, hoses, rotors,
>etc) and will
>> have the hub apart and do not know the age of state of the
>current bearings.
>> Replacing them will give me peace of mind. They need to, at a
>minimum, be
>> repacked.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Charley & Peggy Robinson [mailto:ccrobins@ktc.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:11 PM
>> To: Phillips, Frank
>> Cc: 'mgs@autox.team.net'
>> Subject: Re: More on wheel bearings
>>
>>
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> It came with tapered roller bearings, a spacer and shims to
>set the
>> end play. You need a few of each size shims in hand before you
>start
>> the job. I would suggest that you read the manual procedures
>and be
>> sure you fully understand it before you start.
>>
>> Let me ask a question. Since it's apparent that you've not
>examined
>> the bearings (correct me if I'm wrong), why do you plan to
>replace
>> them?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> CR
>
>
Regards
Barrie Robinson
barrier@bconnex.net
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