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| Author: | rock [ Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | location along axle jopurnal to press on green bearings" |
Hello folks, I may be overthinking this. I have an 8 3/4" axle housing with conventional bearings on the axles I have pulled fro it. I am going to put on new green bearings, which I have. As I studied both sets of bearings and the axle, it dawned on me that the green bearings could "float" on the axle's journal length. In other words while the bearing is located against the axle tube flange by the bearing snap ring and held in place by with the bearing plate and bolted-on brake backing plate, the axle could have as much a 3/4 inch left over that normally is taken up by the adjusting ring on the right side, for instance. These green bearings are .002 smaller diameter inside than the axle shaft diameter at the journal. Because I haven't pressed the bearings on yet, I don't know if the .002 difference is tight but loose enough to allow "adjusting" with a rubbber mallet on the the flange that holds the brake drum, or if what I should to is measure carefully and press on both the thick collar and the green bearing to the exact same depth inside the tube on the axle as the bearings I am replacing now are placed on the axles. I don't see this in archives and I don't see it on bearing site. Thanks rock '64d100 |
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| Author: | Charrlie_S [ Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:14 am ] |
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Just press the green bearing onto the axle shaft, untill it "bottoms". |
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