Re: caged needles for gearbox shafts
Jerome Yuzyk (jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 12:12:03 -0700
In article <199807151936.MAA13845(at)mail-lax-2.pilot.net>,
"Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA)" <GROSS(at)UNIT.COM> wrote:
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> From: jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca
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> >While restoring my (part-synchro) gearbox, it was suggested that I
> >search for caged bearings to replace the 3x27 needle bearings used on
>
> Would you risk gutting an OD mainshaft for ease of replacement?
Hey now, there are only needles on the input and lay-shafts, nowhere
near the mainshaft...
BTW, after some power-surfing on the topic, bearing manufacturers have
their Web acts together. FAG, for example, has a decent picture tutorial
on failure analysis, via www.bearingsfag.com/index.html.
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