Wheel bearings

You need two bearings, a hub oil seal, a paper gasket for the drive flange, a furry washer for the driveshaft nut and a new lockwasher for the bearing nuts.

As for price, Paddocks are often cheaper, and sometimes for a reason. I have had very poor quality parts from them, and as such trust a local Independant LR garage to supply me with parts. He gets pattern parts where they can be trusted, and genuine LR parts where the pattern parts are crap. The wheelbearings he supplies me with are usually Britpart.

Alex

There might also be a washer with locking tabs...

You're paying a bit for the _local_ parts guy to be local, but bearings are very standard items. Likewise oil seals. With the local guy, you can take in an old bearing and get the correct replacement.

Neither price seems wrong, though Paddocks price does seem a bargain.

It depends - what make are the bearings and seal - do you use the motor enough to want Timken or will pattern do, quality seal or cheap? And of course what vehicle it is for.....

Richard

Vehicle as per sig. As for the make of the bearings I couldn't tell you as they are still all bolted up on the 110. :-)

I would prefer quality kit as it is my everyday transport as well as my plaything and I dont want to be pulling it apart more than necessary.

Are Timken the dogs danglies then as wheel bearings go?

Some news reader programs snip the .sig

Timken, and one or two other companies. I've had some crap new bearings that were made in Russia, and arrived in Massey-Ferguson packaging. They failed an hour after they were installed.

I don't automatically recommend vehicle-manufacturer bearings any more. Check the Yellow Pages, the specialist bearing factors are worth checking. But some of the other necessaru parts may be harder to find.

I meant "vehicle" in general terms - and it s not what you are replacing, its what you intend to use for the replacement.............

They were regarded as such when made in the UK, but now, well, we've not had any complaints since the change. There's only one "make", or should that be brand, that I don't like that are often sold by LR spares dealers, but more important is the seal - go for one with a G on the end of the part number if given the choice (thats not G for Genuine, necessarserily (sp?), but G for OEM). As in life generaly, you gets what you pay for, but you can pay too much!

Richard

Those news reader need taking out and shooting then :-)

Hmm... I experienced Russian bearings when I had my Niva. Some were OK others were terrible.

I think I'll have to ring the local guy and ask exactly what he is supplying before I make my mind up.

Ta.

Any chance you could name the brand in question so that I can avoid them? By email if you don't want to broadcast it.

Thanks.

Local place says his bearings are Timken, so I'm off to pick them up in my lunch break.

Now all I need is some nice weather over the weekend so I can do the bearings and finally get round to fitting my tree sliders.

It's been said, most often by owners of Dnepr motorcycles, that Russia has yet to manufacture a proper circle :-)

Anyone had experience of Bearmach bits? I think that they make some stuff themselves, probably not bearings though NGB

I doubt it, if they're made in Britian then there ain't many manufacturers. SKF I know of, and I can't think of any others.

Alex