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liquidrush
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 Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:37 am Post subject: How do I know which wheel bearings to get? |
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| I've got a tube frame bug, link pin front end with drums. It has the old ball bearing type bearings now if that means anything. |
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glutamodo 
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| Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 12:37 pm Post subject: Re: How do I know which wheel bearings to get? |
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Sounds like you just need to get 64/older bearings then. Once upon a time the roller bearings were expensive and hard to come by, and ball bearings cheap and plentiful. Now days, that's flipped around totally.
Do you need to change them? Properly maintained and adjusted, those bearings have a long lifespan.
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dustymojave
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| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:53 am Post subject: Re: How do I know which wheel bearings to get? |
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Link pin includes 1965 model year. 1966 got ball joint front end.
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liquidrush
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| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:39 am Post subject: Re: How do I know which wheel bearings to get? |
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| The previous owner didn't take care of them, they even forced the left side bearing retainer nut to turn right hand effing up the threads and causing the nut to just spin. I did get it apart and the bearing was bone dry and rusty so I'm going to replace everything on both sides. |
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glutamodo
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| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: How do I know which wheel bearings to get? |
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| dustymojave wrote: |
| Link pin includes 1965 model year. 1966 got ball joint front end. |
Yes, that was a typo on my part. 
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Vanapplebomb
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: How do I know which wheel bearings to get? |
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Autozone is a distributor of Timken brand bearings. Good stuff. Pick a year, any year for a link pin beam, say 1963. They will pull it up for you. Not that expensive, but good stuff. They are tapered roller bearings, not ball bearings. This is a good thing for off road. More robust, and a direct swap.
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