<VV>Fan hub bearing

[Frank DuVal]

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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!
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> 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...?          ;)
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> 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...
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> tony..
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What can I say? Customers sometimes put off needed repairs for toooooo 
long. Surprisingly, it wasn't THAT noisy! Even Dave Robertson, who still 
lives in Richmond and fixes other peoples cars, recently (at the 
Ho-Down) made a comment about early models spitting ball bearings as a 
sign the bearing needed replacing. Maybe that is why the very early 
models had the boots on the bearing, to keep the balls from being 
projectiles! ;-)
<<ggg>>
Frank DuVal