Re: [T-3] Pilot bearing?

[fess <fess-vwtype3.org@fess.org>]

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On Sep 3, 2005, at 10:41 AM, BOB2TYPE3S@aol.com wrote:

> Thanks for the advice, as
> I had been wondering IF a pilot bearing could fail ( I hadn't heard of 
> one
> doing so), and what it would do.

It failed in my '67.
Neither the PO when he put the engine in, nor the engine assembler from 
whom he bought it lubed it,
and the PO sold me the car with like 100 miles on the engine.  by the 
time I got it home (80 mi) it was screetching with clutch usage,  and 
when I got it to a mechanic and got it apart, The little needle 
bearings were destroyed, flopping all over.

--fess

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