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Old 07-31-2007, 05:46 PM
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Replacing a bad wheel bearing on the rally beater. Put in a new one (Federal Mogul; *** bearing, made in Canada), and its got a fair bit of play in it. The identical bearing that I put in the other strut last year is shot (3x as much play... but also sounds fine and doesn't bind), and I'm taking them both in to the bearing shop that sold me the bearings to see what they think... and potentially see about warrantee.

What bearings are people having the best results with? I'm 99.9% sure that I am pressing these in correctly.
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Default I only use SKF bearings and have suffered no pre-mature failures to-date...

tho I think any bearing manufacturer deserves at least one "get-out-of-jail-free" card.
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Default Ask Adam how my Federal Mogul bearings held up...

The 4kq has four of them in it.

The Rally car has only SKF bearings in it, and I try and use skf for all bearings whenever possible.

-Dave
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