I switched to tapered roller bearings on my vintage racer out of concern
for side loads under racing conditions, blah blah blah...the whole
slippery slope. Setting endfloat with shims is a royal PITA. I would
never go to this trouble with a street car, nor did I with my bugeye.
Use high quality ball bearings, pack them with the latest synthetic
bearing mousse, and forget them. How many hundreds of thousands of miles
are you expecting to drive?
Just my $0.02.
JohnD
Message: 14
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:34:09 -0600
From: "Leo" <60bugeye at cebridge.net>
Subject: [Spridgets] revisit to yapered wheel bearings
To: <spridgets at autox.team.net>
I know this subject has been visited before BUT what is the REAL world
consensus on the long term reliability of the tapered wheel bearing
conversion such as http://tinyurl.com/63d2bnu . Anybody that has
done
the conversion and had success with it (high mileage success)? Any
failures? I have seen and experienced a spun bearing / ruined hub and
want to avoid the issue again but I also question the wisdom of changing
a "heavily factory engineered" component (engineering which far exceeds
the capabilities of the typical car owner). A catastrophic failure at
speed (low or high) of the front end is not a failure I want to
experience.
Thanks
Leo
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