<VV> Early Rear Bearings

[jvhroberts at aol.com]

 Well, there's always going to be such things. Carrying a spare bearing is a lot less painful than an axle! Besides, the failure you referred to is unusual. Most people drive through water and all they get is a wet car!

But again, with new bearings, the risk of failure is so low, there'd be other issues to worry about. Again, it's not just the axle bearings, it's a lot of things, and I don't see someone carrying around a spare axle, starter, generator, carburetors, distributors, transmission, etc. I don't see anyone doing that. 

 

John Roberts
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: James Davis <jld at wk.net>
To: jvhroberts <jvhroberts at aol.com>
Cc: VIRTUALVAIRS <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 9:16 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> Early Rear Bearings


But when they were new your Chevy dealer had them in stock and could 
replace one in an hour.  I remember driving through standing water in 
spring 1965 and having both rear wheel bearings start making noise about 
three weeks later.  I lived in Sacramento at the time.  Took the Corsa 
by the Chevy dealer about six blocks away and the service manager said 
leave it and we will fix it in the morning.  I took a nice little 1962 
Corvair loaner home.  They called me about 11 am and said my car was 
ready.  I picked it up over my lunch hour.  All under the 12,000 mile 
warranty.  Try to find a place within a 100 miles that can repair and 
replace a rear hub.
Jim Davis

On 1/7/2012 7:14 PM, jvhroberts at aol.com wrote:
>   Well, I think carrying a spare axle is impractical. After all, no one did 
that when these were new!
>
> Replacing the rear bearings brings them back to zero hours, and no on the road 
spares are needed.
>
> If you look at all the things that can strand one of these, you'd have 300 
pounds of spares in the trunk!! Freshening up those trouble spots makes the 
traveling spares unnecessary.
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> John Roberts
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank DuVal<corvairduval at cox.net>
> To: virtualvairs<virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 7:54 pm
> Subject: Re:<VV>  Early Rear Bearings
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> Smitty, how many miles per bearing are you averaging? I guess I would
> ask per used/greased bearing and new/greased bearing.
>
> I agree on the "insurance policy" of carrying a spare axle on trips away
> from home. Of course Smitty drives thousands of miles from home!
>
> Frank DuVal
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> On 1/7/2012 11:45 AM, Smitty wrote:
>>               Smitty Says;  Chuck, I, who have destroyed more Early rear
>> bearings that any two other persons in CORSA, have one very strong
>> recommendation to make.  No matter if you take your bearings apart and
>> grease them or replace them with new, you should obtain a good axle and
>> install a new freshly greased bearing on it.  Put it in the trunk and make
>> sure she knows what it is for.  Getting a disabled Corvair off the highway
>> and to a garage will cost you enough without adding the garage cost of
>> hunting down a bearing and then maybe destroying it while installing it.
>> The failure mode of a bearing ranges from a dry swishing sound like a branch
>> is caught under the car to a cyclic rumbling that can't be ignored.  The
>> number of miles you specify and the age of the grease indicates that you are
>> running on the early edge of the limit.  My second strong recommendation,
>> even if you provide a spare axle, is to pull them both and install new ones.
>> If not that then at least pull them and grease them is shown in the tech
>> tips.  I hate to tell you this because I know it is expensive, but believe
>> me I have learned how expensive it can get.  You do not want her to have to
>> deal with this.  In my defense of destroying dozens of bearings I must
>> mention that I did this while racking up over 400,000 miles on my wagon
>> while pulling a camper with 150 lb tongue weight.   Don't forget to clean
>> and pack the front bearings too.
>>
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