Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:59:48 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Ohana <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Ohana <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject: Re: Wheel bearings
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I would say the first tricky part is getting high qualityparts.
next, on the rear wheel bearings , if they are still good, I would leave
them alone !
'up to' 1/8th inch of play at the rear wheels, is acceptable.
if a 6 month trip to Alaska is planned, and the brgs have say 170K on
them ..then yes, do them.
( and the success of the repair will not really be confirmed for some
months ) .
I say this because I have read of several cases of knowlegible people
getting the best rear brgs they can,
installing them carefully ( it's a bit of a tricky job...about 6 times
more complex than doing the fronts )
and then having bearing failure in a year or less.
As always ...you will hear this from me............ 'all new' is not at
all automatically the best thing.
I suggest a sign of mastery is knowing what to do, and no more.Like
'just the right thing.'
numerous factors enter in ..
current parts not being as good as orginal ones, for one.
Or taking something that is working just fine ...disturbing it, and
while the intention of 'all new' is good ..
it does not always work out. I've seen or read about such cases about a
million times, on vanagons.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
On 6/6/2013 10:30 AM, raceingcajun wrote:
> Hello Rory,
>
> The R & R is pretty standard stuff here, everything clean, new race's
> seated
> squarely, repacked with a good quality wheel bearing grease. and most
> of all
> .......DO NOT USE "CHINESE" BEARINGS. This is one place where made in
> USA is
> very important! The Chinese bearings just wont last.
> Torque the nut until you can just move the washer with a screw driver.
> Drive a few days and recheck torque! By the way the Bentley has a spec
> for
> the torque, so refer to it if you have a Bentley, and if you don't have
> one.......WHY NOT? :^)
>
> Howard
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rory Bogar" <Bojeeze@YAHOO.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 12:16 PM
> Subject: Wheel bearings
>
>
> Just purchased inner and outer bearings and seals all 'round for my '90
> .This will be my first Vanagon R&R, does anyone have input as far as
> anything I should be looking out for or trouble spots that you've ran
> into
> in the past? Thanks
>
> Rory
> '90 Vanagon
> '87 Vanagon
>
> Sent from my iPhone=
>
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