<VV> The 3 Greatest Corvair Improvements

[airvair]

Ah, but in essence aren't you really saying that your bearing IS
defective for your application, because you had to put a set screw in
it? Sounds like that's the case to me. And didn't someone's post say
something about an ounce of prevention, etc.? That's all I'm doing,
preventing the bad karma when and if it should ever decide to fail so
quickly again.  So I'm STILL right. You said so.

And I'll be the first to admit that if I didn't have bad luck, I'd have
no luck at all. LOL

-Mark

In a message dated 4/10/2007 2:40:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
airvair at richnet.net writes:

       Just ask
       the many attendees at the DACC Homecoming (where I ended up
spending all
       Saturday scrounging up the parts, tools, and services, not to
mention
       the teardown and reassembly time) if you want witnesses. You can
start
       with Ken Hand. And don't ever call me a liar again.

       I stand by my original decision.

       -Mark

 
Easy Mark - For hundreds, if not thousands of folks, the bearing gives
warning before failing, and after thousands, not hundreds of
miles. Not for you? Okay You had a bad bearing -  Shit happens. But your
case is not a common occurrence. For most folks, the
original bearings often outlast the owners - or at least their ownership
of the car. And give verbal complaints long before failure. For
race cars, sometimes the bearings will start to rise up out of the
casting. You can really hear that happen! So I usually grind a flat on
the shaft and setscrew with loctite through the housing. It only has to
happen once to make you aware of it. Just like your
occurrence. But I don't draw the conclusion that the design is bad, or
needs replacement. I just adapt. But I don't tell everyone it is a
design flaw. It wasn't. As for the failure on your car, I think it was
just bad luck.  - Seth