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>From: Greg Merritt <gregm@engin.umich.edu>
> Some additional notes... I confirmed that the strange scraping
>noise from the right rear wheel *was* due to a bad bearing: the inner race
>of the right outer bearing was split in two! Yikes! I got my replacements
>from Rocky Mountain Motorworks. The inner ball bearings were like $12
>apiece, and were factory-sealed. I went ahead & packed lots of grease
>around them after installation just for good measure. The outer roller
>bearings were a mere $4 apiece, probably due to their Chinese manufacture.
>Kind of funny, coming from RMMW; they tend to be particular about stuff
>being German, and once apologized profusely for sending me Brazillian T3
>drums instead of German ones. Go figure.
Nice goin! I hate having to do repairs in this weather, glad you had at
least some shelter. I think it's pretty unusual to find a broken inner race
since the steel there operates under compression, but, of course anything's
possible. I am amased at the $4 for the roller bearing! I think I paid
6-10 times that the only time I thought I needed one and then it turned out
that I didn't. It's still on the shelf down the basement. It IS German,
however, but yours will be fine.
Strange that the ball bearings would be sealed. I wonder if RMMW uses these
for another application also.
Jim
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