<VV> Blower Bearing

[airvair]

I guess, go by experience. BTW I didn't say "catastrophic and unexpected 
failure," just that it went from nothing to screaming like a banshee in 
the space of about an hour's drive. Very unnerving. When I pulled into 
the Homecoming, EVERYone in the entire lot heard me coming. And I wasted 
an entire day at the meet fixing it. I NEVER want to have that happen 
again, so I'll stick with the replacable "alternator" bearings, thank 
you very much, and pray that you don't have one go bad like that on you.

Maybe my experience could be the byproduct of a car that spends most of 
its life sitting. I don't know.

And yes, I've seen them totally fail. Maybe it MIGHT take a while, but 
it wipes out the blower when it goes. (Fortunately, it wasn't in my car. 
And YES I warned its owner.)

-Mark

corvairs wrote:
> Mark - If catestrophic und unexpected failure of this item was common 
> (I've NEVER heard of it until you mentioned it) then an argument could 
> be made. Unfortunatly every blower bearing failure I've ever had gave 
> thousands of miles of warnings (usually 10's of thousands of miles!). I 
> can't say I ever recall hearing of a blower bearing failure that 
> occurred without any warning. So now what do we do? Lon
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> airvair wrote:
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>> When I said "deficient" I didn't meant that it wasn't very durable, 
>> but rather that it was NOT designed to be easily or quickly replaced. 
>> The factory design reminds me of my brother's Fiat that required half 
>> the front suspension be removed in order to replace a 25 cent seal. I 
>> can only guess that neither of you have ever had a blower bearing go 
>> bad on you without warning "in the middle of nowhere" and had to spend 
>> a whole day gutting the engine top end, finding a bearing, and then 
>> searching around for a press just to get it replaced. Been there, done 
>> that, don't ever want to do it again. They're too much of a royal pain.
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>> So what if the alternater bearing isn't QUITE as durable? At least 
>> when they DO go bad, I won't have to spent the whole day gutting the 
>> entire engine top end.
>>
>> -Mark
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