<VV>Fan hub bearing

[Tony Underwood]

At 08:47 hours 10/10/2006, Frank DuVal wrote:


>Tony Underwood wrote:
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>>At 07:38 hours 10/10/2006, Padgett wrote:
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>>>Am told (I can't feel it) that my fan hub bearing is getting 
>>>rough. Is this the sort of thing that suddenly scatters parts or 
>>>tends to "fail soft", making increasing amounts of noise.
>>>
>>>Need to decide whether to replace before or after an 80 mile excusion.
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>>They usually get really bad, loose enough to scrape the fan on the 
>>shroud, before they catastrophically fail.    I've had 'em get 
>>loose enough to rattle and chatter but none have ever actually come 
>>apart.      ...yet.
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>>tony..
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>But I have had the early model (smaller bearing) spit the ball 
>bearings at me. When that happens it is close to time to change the bearing!


By the time a bearing gets THAT bad, it should have been changed a 
month previous.    Did somebody just turn the radio up louder to hide 
the racket the bearing must have been making...?          ;)

By the way:   The engine I took out of my '60 4-door last year still 
has its original fan bearing, still quiet as a mouse in church after 
almost 200,000 miles and 46 years.   Can't say that about the broken 
valve and cracked piston though...


tony..