ok it's a rumble! get da chains and da pipes and meet me behind finzio's
gas station over in jersey and were gonna get this settled for once and for
all! lol!
honestly, my bugeye has been spacer free for 21 years. when i changed from
ball bearings to tapered rollers the spacers were thrown away. all the arm
chair engineering could not get the specific aplication answer without
speaking with the guy who actually penned the blueprints for the initial
aplication. domestic cars have used ball bearing front hub bearings in some
aplications up past the early 1960's without the use of spacers. now all i
see is the funky spacer fills up the cavity in the hub to reduce the room
that is to be packed with aditional wheel bearing grease. i guess that a
proper length spacer could keep an enthusiastic owner from overtightening
the spindle nut possibly damaging a bearing? other than that, i am open to
ideas, but still see little need for them.
and to fuel the brake fluid wars!
59 bugeye : all new materials in 1989, no leaks or failures to date,
silicone fluid!
67 impala : all new materials in 1995, no leaks or failures to date,
silicone fluid!
67 sports racer: all new materials in 1997, no leaks or failures to date,
silicone fluid! (all girling and lockheed hydraulics)
56 chevy : all new materials in 1985, sold in 1991(darn divorce!)
and still no leaks at last contact with new owner as of last fall, silicone
fluid!
60 saab 93f : not completed yet, but all new materials and will have
silicone fluid.
i have had nothing but sucess with silicone fluid in delco, lockheed,
girling systems to date. there are some problems with just flushing out
alcohol based fluid and simply installing silicone fluid in a high mileage
system, due to worn seals. i do recomend if a change over is to be done
that all related seals be renewed. but i have traveled many trouble free
highway miles in restored cars to shows and had many trouble free racing
weekends also. before i changed to silicone fluid in the bugeye i swear it
puked a rear wheel cylinder each year of ownership prior to switching over
to silicone fluid.
chuck.
now back to da rumble!
finzio's ref. (book:the last open road)! if youse guys neva read dis here
publication like book youse is missin one fine piece of litter-a-chure!
*honestly a really neat book*
----- Original Message -----
From <Ajhsys at aol.com>
To: <cfchrist@earthlink.net>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: so you thought i'd never return?
> In a message dated 8/29/00 12:07:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> cfchrist@earthlink.net writes:
>
> << my friend jon and i are back home safe and sound! including a
> little lizzard from florida that was discovered on the inside rear view
> mirror this morning basking in the sun.....in my truck! >>
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> You can't transport lizards across state lines without a permit, chuck!
Now
> take it back.
>
> BTW, you missed a great discussion on the necessity of those shims and
> spacers for the front wheel bearings. It wound up with a JustBrits
bashing
> bout. What do you think about using shims and spacers in the hubs?
>
> Allen Hefner
> SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
> '77 Midget
> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
>
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