<VV> advice and parts needed

[shortle]

At age 26 I had been into Corvairs for 9 years. And that was almost 26 years ago. As far as getting a good used (cheap)rear axle bearing my advice is to get a used axle off your 1963 and service this part and then install. Don't mess with pressing off/on the axle bearing when you already have one on your '63. Just get a complete axle with a good serviceable bearing and that will work fine.
Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301  


-----Original Message-----
>From: Ramon Rodriguez III <corvairgrymm at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 7, 2012 4:08 PM
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: <VV> advice and parts needed
>
>Ben is a very good (26 y/o) friend of mine who was foolish enough to allow
>me to get him hooked on Corvairs.  He recently purchased his first, a 62
>Monza 4sp. coupe project car.  The plan is to do the minimum required to
>get the car road worthy, then continue to fix it up a little at a time.
>
>As mentioned earlier we were working on brakes today so we also planned to
>clean and grease the rear wheel bearings (via tech guide instructions).
> Upon opening the passenger side rear wheel bearing assembly we found the
>likely reason the car was parked to begin with.  The inner bearing carrier
>came out in two pieces, with lots of other damage evident.
>
>New rear wheel bearings are completely outside the budget for this project
>so I'm hoping for a used set we can clean and grease.  I remember something
>about these needing to be pressed on and off or something of that sort, so
>I need advice on how to go about replacing these with used ones.  How best
>to remove and install the assembly etc.
>
>If nobody is able to provide a decent pair of used rear bearing assemblies,
>but a procedure for somehow replacing them (maybe the whole half shaft?) is
>available I might have to steal the ones of my 63' which will be getting
>stripped and scrapped in a month or two.  I know that the 63 up bearings
>are different and I'll have to change more than just the bearing.  I might
>even resort to swapping the whole rear suspension from one car to the
>other.
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>-- 
>*Looking to buy a Spyder coupe for 3k or less*
>
>Ray "Grymm" Rodriguez III
>Lake Ariel, PA
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