[Shotimes] Bad Ball Joints or Wheel Bearings?

[Juillerat, Aaron J]

Thanks now I am tracking.  Nothing we stockers need to worry about. ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Fisher [mailto:dataflash@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:29 PM
To: Juillerat, Aaron J; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Bad Ball Joints or Wheel Bearings?

Ahhh..I should've clarified. George and I both run
custom brake setups from TCE
(www.tceperformanceproducts.com) <- their domain was
down today though.

They utlize wilwood calipers and two piece rotors. If
we (those of us with the kit) want to retain the
factory slicer wheels, we need to run extra thick hats
to push the wheel out to clear the larger calipers.
This puts more stress on the wheel bearing. 

I don't think I'll ever use the factory rims again so
I'm probably going to ditch these thick hats and run
thinner ones with thicker rotors. The 17's that I have
now have ample spoke to caliper clearance so I should
be ok.

Ian

--- "Juillerat, Aaron J" <aaronj@autojectors.com>
wrote:

> Ian, what are you referring to when you say "think
> slicer hat"?
> 
> -A.J.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Fisher [mailto:dataflash@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 7:33 AM
> To: George Fourchy; shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Bad Ball Joints or Wheel
> Bearings?
> 
> If you are running the thick slicer hats with longer
> studs, expect to run through wheel bearings somewhat
> frequently. For me, that's reason #542 to get
> thinner
> hats and thicker rotors and dump my slicers forever.
> It's a good idea if you have ample spoke to caliper
> clearance with your rims.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> --- George Fourchy <krazgeo@comcast.net> wrote:
>  
> > That was immediately after I had
> > the bearing replaced when the old one had about an
> > inch of play.  These were (still
> > are) Scott Chan's Wilwood knuckles that were new
> > from TCE in about 1996 or so.  That
> > was the left side....the right side is still
> > original, and at last check (2004) had
> > hardly any measurable play.
> > 
> 
> 
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