<VV> Early Rear Bearings

[Frank DuVal]

Unless you are lucky enough to but a set of "Green" brand bearings. You 
think you are set for a long time of easy driving, and then within 5k 
miles you hear that familiar grinding noise again....

I did that on my 64 Spyder. When I bought it the rear bearings were just 
starting to squeak. So I repacked them, even though the shop manual 
didn't say it was possible. They worked fine for a few years, then I 
redid the car in 1982. Well, I replaced the bearings just to be on the 
safe side. Within 5k miles, both bearings were shot. Then the story of 
the Green bearings came around. Too late for me. If I had kept greasing 
the original bearings, who knows how long they would last? And that's my 
point. Why replace perfectly good parts that can give years of service? 
Just be prepared. If we replaced all the parts on the car, we couldn't 
afford them. Decisions are always made during resurrections.

And I've guess you've never seen shops ruin new bearings trying to 
install them? You need a long pipe to do early bearings properly.

Frank DuVal

On 1/8/2012 12:21 PM, jvhroberts at aol.com wrote:
>   These presses are out there in repair shops. Remember, nowadays, we have AAA and cell phones. The idea of doing anything but the most basic and simple repairs by the roadside is, well, absurd in today's world.
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> Again, if you have new bearings, what's the likelyhood of having a failure? If I had a set of axles with new bearings, I'd install them instead of carrying them around!!
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> John Roberts
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