Re: More on wheel bearings

["Michael Lupynec" <mlupynec@globalserve.net>]

Barrie Robinson wrote:

> I have heard of sawdust, and nylon stockings for gearboxes - the
latter
> being more fun.  But the best I experienced was a Morris 8
obtained from
> the local scrap yard that was suffering big and small end
failures.  Being
> skint students we fashioned bearings from leather>

So the story I heard in the 60's from a neighbour who said he
burned a big end bearing in his Morris Minor and used his leather
belt to get it home - might have been true.

Mike L.
60A,67E,59Bug