Rear Wheel Bearing Difference, Comparison that may have caused my failures |
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Rear Wheel Bearing Difference, Comparison that may have caused my failures |
914Sixer |
Jan 15 2017, 03:50 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,882 Joined: 17-January 05 From: San Angelo Texas Member No.: 3,457 Region Association: Southwest Region |
For months now I have maintained there is a big difference in the quality of the new rear bearings verses the original ones. Today I had time to compare an original FAG (Germany)and a new SKF (Italy) bearing shells. MY conclusion is what I suspected, the new ones are NOT the same. I took pictures and measurements to document what I saw. I hope the pictures let you see the difference. Guess which one is the original German one!
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SixerJ |
Jan 18 2017, 11:56 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 448 Joined: 24-June 13 From: UK Member No.: 16,042 Region Association: England |
Does anyone know the old FAG part number and dims of the bearing, does 75x42x37 sound right or... Perry are your NOS in boxes still, any ID info?
Think I might have found a NOS set and figuring that even though they have a shelf life they may just be just fine or possibly still better than the POS new stuff floating around |
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