Re: Front hub bearings
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2002 7:21 am
Has anyone experienced or heard of front hub bearings failing catastrophically?
I am running original style ball bearings in my front hubs, and race occasionally.
In my experience with more modern cars (e.g. MG TD and MGB 
) the wheel
bearings get noisy and have excessive play long before failing completely.
I did crack test the front spindles and found one cracked. A new spindle was
machined and installed. I am careful when installing the bearings in the hubs
to make sure that they are the right way around-often ball bearings take thrust
in one direction and not the other. But I'm curious as to why the tapered bearing
conversion is so common.
As an aside, I'm convinced that one of the reasons I own an old MG is so that
I can lie awake in bed at night worrying about all the different ways the car
can break... and having a background in Mechanical Engineering only adds to
the variety of potential component failures and failure modes.
Mark, hope to see you on the track this weekend.
Bill Putnam
TB 0597
) the wheel
bearings get noisy and have excessive play long before failing completely.
I did crack test the front spindles and found one cracked. A new spindle was
machined and installed. I am careful when installing the bearings in the hubs
to make sure that they are the right way around-often ball bearings take thrust
in one direction and not the other. But I'm curious as to why the tapered bearing
conversion is so common.
As an aside, I'm convinced that one of the reasons I own an old MG is so that
I can lie awake in bed at night worrying about all the different ways the car
can break... and having a background in Mechanical Engineering only adds to
the variety of potential component failures and failure modes.
Mark, hope to see you on the track this weekend.
Bill Putnam
TB 0597
futher apart we went back to a roller bearing >with a distance piece machined for propper length, all then >fit nicely on the spindle. You can also get from bearing >houses a thrust ball bearing. They are pricey, but worth the >added security at the apex of a hard corner> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:12:43 -0500 > From: "mark heathman" mmheathman@msn.com> >Subject: Re: Wheel Bearings > >WE tried the tapper roller bearings with the spacer... >With that concern and the the added leverage caused by the >bearings being
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