[Spridgets] wheel bearings

[Michael D Myers]

Bearing life actually goes up with a little bit of preload, but too much
and things
go South in a hurry. The range suggested is intended to provide a decent
preload
when things heat up during operation. 

Mike 
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 20:15:49 -0700 (PDT) Ron Soave <soavero at yahoo.com>
writes:
> --- David Lieb <dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com> wrote:
> > I imagine that bearing engineers just look at you
> > funny if you suggest 
> 
> Mike is a bearing engineer. 
> 
> We were playing with this issue at work one lunch
> hour. Without being 100% certain of materials and
> assuming my race car bearings got to 350F, .007" was
> more like what we calculated as being needed (we
> actually came up with .010). I actually was doing
> wheel bearings last night, and I couldn't get a dial
> indicator set up well enough to even come close to
> getting the measurement accurately after shimming, so
> I had to go by feel. I suppose we'll see how these do
> on the track.