Well, it should be. A roller bearing (SKF, Timken ,whatever) would in theory outlast a car. It is in use only now and then and it don't have to take much load. On top of industrial buildings there are ventilation fans going day and night, year after year on their bearings. Not forever, but it is amazing how well they survive.
So it have to be something else. Bad design??
I did look at at the SHO site. So much problem on such a simple thing. And the Americans managed to send people to the moon, and that is very difficult. I tried and did not managed, no way!
Kristian Jonsson
>More fragile than modern bearings? I doubt that.
>I'm on clutch # 3 (in 148K miles) on my Taurus SHO - All because of the
>bearing.
>The first one wore the input shaft out, cocked and locked so I was unable
>to release the clutch. The second wore right through the clutch fingers
>and disintegrated ( I'll be posting pictures soon) and the third one whined
>a bit the first week I got it back. The noise went away two days ago.
>
>See http://www.shotimes.com/SHO3clutchstiff.html for another problem known
>for this clutch.
>Also, click
>http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.cgi?ln=shotimes&mid=&sp=&q=clutch&b=1&s=
>1&o=0.
>
>Note that the tranny the SHO is based on came out in '82 and the 'fix' was
>a metal sleeve over the input shaft...
>
>I went over 100K miles on many a Cricket clutch and bearing and even reused
>a cover or bearing when I replaced the disk at times.
>
>Dave R.
>
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