Re: [T3] Upper torsion arm needle bearings

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

On the needle-bearing saga, one of our club members was telling me just today
that he made up a new 'bearing' with a sleeve of DEVA metal.  It's been fine for
the past 3 years anyway.  He's sending a drawing and other info, but I gather
it's an aerospace material so may not be readily available over the counter.
Still, it's not as if it's enriched uranium! (Oops, say hello to the nice
security guys reading this - I hope!).
I think someone else may have posted info about this material (DEVA) a year or
so ago.  It's a carbon (graphite?) impregnated material which has excellent
load-carrying properties.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club
http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>
To: <type3@vwtype3.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 5:01 AM
Subject: Re: [T3] Upper torsion arm needle bearings


> On 21 Nov 2003 at 23:53, Yancy Everhart wrote:
>
> > I removed the torsion arms and sway bar only to find the needles in the
> > bearing broken in half!
>
> Wow, those look pretty bad. I've never seen needles broken like that, but the
> center part between bearings looks rusty. Someone left this front end without
> grease for a long time. I assume that was before you. This is a good lesson
for
> everyone to keep grease in their front axle beam. I'm afraid that a lot of
> these die simply because mechanics don't notice the 2 upper Zerk fittings.
>

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