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• Re: To split the case or not on a rebuild?
  Historical mailing list - Anthony Polson
  Tue, 9 Jul 2002 20:02:47 +0100
  ...To split the case or not on a rebuild? <snip> >Would you split the case and do the crank, cam bearings or just the...
• Re: Wheel bearing squell
  Historical mailing list - Matthias Kuster
  Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:22:18 -0800
  Doesn't soound like a wheel bearing, that wouldn't squeal I think. Check clearance between backing plate and moving parts I would suggest...
• Re: Wheel bearing brands
  Historical mailing list - Jonathan Farrugia
  Wed, 3 Dec 2008 18:15:57 -0500
  > Dave Yates wrote: >> Can anyone comment on KMM as a brand of bearing? Where are they made? the internet provides the following information. http...
• Re: Rear Bearing Help and bulb
  Historical mailing list - Mary Beth and Chris Geiser
  Sun, 25 Mar 2001 08:26:22 -0600
  ...Rear Bearing Help and bulb Hi all, Today's project was going to be the left rear bearings, both inner and outer. They have...
• Re: Tell me about rear bearings
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:40:00 -0600
  Dennis, what would you say the real life of the rear bearings actually is, in terms of mileage? John On 1/19/2014 10...
• Front Wheel Bearing Seal Issue (Pic)
  Historical mailing list - neil N
  Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:39:53 -0700
  ...installing the front wheel bearing grease seal. The archives say the seal should be flush with the hub face when installed. Issue: if I...
• Re: Wheel bearing vs. CV joints
  Historical mailing list - MDC Vanagon
  Fri, 3 May 2002 14:30:57 -0700
  it's the wheel bearing. the CV joint will pop or click under pressure and then go away completely when you let off the...
• Re: Why my rear axle nuts got loose
  Historical mailing list - M. Jade
  Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:55:50 -0700
  ...the bearings are not� expensive.� See here > _Vanagon New >> Parts_ (http://frankcondelli.com/sales.htm)� under "Wheel� Bearings" >> heading. >> The rear wheel bearings can...
• Re: Steering Knuckle Axle Stub Wear PICS
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Sat, 9 Jan 2016 17:42:52 -0700
  ...This will allow bearing pre- > load to be easily adjusted accurately. Search the list for Porsche and > my email address for the notes I...
• Re: Grease your front wheel bearings!!
  Historical mailing list - Mike
  Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:04:30 -0500
  ...Grease your front wheel bearings!! Seeing the pictures that Neil included http://californiavan.com/frontend/80-84lowerballjoints/ reminded me to REMIND YOU ALL to...
• Re: front wheel bearing questions...
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Feller
  Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:04:13 -0400
  True but I was always told that if the play is equal in all directions it's usually the bearing...but I know little...
• Re: Top Overhauls
  Historical mailing list - Robert Donalds
  Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:37:11 -0500
  ...All of the larger 2.1 (# 1 threw $3) main bearings are a rolled trimetal composition bearing and they tend not to work lose...
• Re: The alternator issue
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:00 -0700
  ...Noted loose sleeve in the blind bearing housing at "back" or alt.. replaced both bearing and used shim stock to tighten up plastic sleeve...
• Play in rear wheel bearings
  Historical mailing list - Ralph Meyermann
  Tue, 28 Jun 2016 09:40:26 -0500
  ...I just replaced the rear wheel bearings with German parts and torqued properly. There seems to be just a slight wiggle in the wheel...
• Re: Help Clutch Pilot Bearing question!
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Sat, 23 Oct 1999 17:19:49 EDT
  ...of the pilot bearing. 3/ The distance the bottom of the blind bearing is below the mounting face of the clutch housing. 4/ The...
• Can't remove pilot bearing
  Historical mailing list - Frank Miller
  Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:26:08 -0400
  I'm in the process of doing a rebuild on my 1.9 wasserleaker and removing the old remains of the pilot bearing from...
• Re: Clutch housing rebuild questions (searched archicve) + small report
  Historical mailing list - neil
  Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:25:45 -0400
  --- Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > > The passenger side bearing is brass and > > usually in good > > shape,still. ---- Neil wrote: > D-side bearing had...
• What are main and rod bearing dimensions?
  Historical mailing list - Gary
  Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:56:22 -0700
  Can someone tell me what the main and rod bearing diameters are for a 2.1 vanagon is? Decimal format preferred. Also maximum allowance...
• Re: Curious Question (totallyNVC) Babbit bearings
  Historical mailing list - LOREN BUSCH
  Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:30:28 -0700
  Jim asked "Does anyone else remember babbitt metal, which was heated and poured around journals before they had bearing shell inserts?" I watched my...
• Re: Front wheel bearings
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:13:18 -0700
  ...Front wheel bearings > To: mordo <helmut.blong@gmail.com>, vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com > > ALWAYS replace both pieces of the bearing! Did I say ALWAYS...
• Rod Bearing Question 1.9L Build
  Historical mailing list - Jonce Fancher
  Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:55:57 -0500
  Hi all in the 1.9L Saga im just hanging the rods and installed the bearings and they seem a bit narrow. Meaning they...
• Re: hello and a new memeber.
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 2 Aug 2004 08:02:55 -0500
  ...6) Repack the bearings and pack the housing. 7) Install new seals. 8) Use only general purpose grease or be certain and buy the...
• Re: Chrome Muffler Bearing?
  Historical mailing list - jimt
  Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:11:03 -0700
  Maybe a new part? Lower Idle Stabilizer Bearing? Sounds like someone was playing with the vacuum system for some reason. Is there normally any...
• Re: Transmission Noise ?
  Historical mailing list - Walter Houle
  Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:24:19 -0500
  ...They checked everything, re-adjusted the rear bearings which were slightly loose, and re-torqued all axle, CV joint, and wheel lug bolts. Still...
• Re: heater fan whine
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:54:18 -0800
  Anything short of removing the dash is is good news- maybe a long tube threaded to the bearing? From under the dash? Above? � Robert...
• Bearing Problem - Any Ideas??
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:18:15 -0500
  ...Installed and seated the new bearing races - no problem. Greased the pucky out of the races, the new bearings, and generally all over. Assembled...
• EVER HEARD OF SPECIAL STEERING COLUMN GREASE?
  Historical mailing list - John Wallace
  Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:51:02 -0500
  Dear List members, What I thought was power steering problems appears to be the possiblilty of a tight steering column bearing in the relay...
• Moaning noise
  Historical mailing list - bill (w.r.) crick
  Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:58:00 -0500
  ...After checking back bearings, and brakes, to no avail, changing the FRONT wheel bearing fixed it. Just got it back last night, and coming...
• Moaning noise
  Historical mailing list - bill (w.r.) crick
  Thu, 4 Apr 1996 10:49:00 -0500
  ...After checking back bearings, and brakes, to no avail, changing the FRONT wheel bearing fixed it. Just got it back last night, and coming...
• Re: VC and waterpump ????sss
  Historical mailing list - Joshua Van Tol
  Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:27:39 -0600
  ...As far as the bearings being lubricated by coolant, that isn't the case. They are usually sealed bearings, with their own grease supply...
• Bearing Replacement: How to clean and lubricate the sliding door.
  Historical mailing list - Erik O
  Wed, 6 May 1998 11:19:06 -0400
  ...Get yourself two bearings from a pair of inline skates. They should be easy to acquire, just ask someone who has a pair of...
• Re: Rear axle torque specs?
  Historical mailing list - Phil Zimmerman
  Tue, 2 Jun 2015 09:21:48 -0700
  ...Which is fair, as the bearings in the rear are not tapered like in the front of the Van. What one calls the squish...
• Re: Rear wheel bearings
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:36:25 -0800
  When you turn right you load the left inner and right outer bearings, so its the left outer. You should check the sleeve when...
• Throwout-bearing
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Mon, 9 Nov 1998 22:41:18 -0800
  All of a sudden my throwout bearing has gotten quite noisy - particularly when the engine is cold. Is this just something that happens when...
• Re: flywheel pilot bearing will not fit!
  Historical mailing list - phil cain
  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:00:48 -0800
  Take a drill of the correct size and make the hole in the crankshaft deep enought to hold the bearing. Phil __________________________________ Do you Yahoo...
• Any grease or ...
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan Kuthy
  Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:27:51 -0700
  Hi guys, I had to take the rear wheel bearings out and now I would like to regrease them. The question is; does it...
• Re: Clutch Revisited - this time with pics
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 2 Jun 2010 21:26:28 -0700
  ...Make sure you get some pilot bearing dust seal in this time .. pilot bearings go out pretty easily without a dust seal, which might...
• Re: Pilot Bearing
  Historical mailing list - JRodgers
  Wed, 8 May 2013 22:56:47 -0500
  If this is a manual tranny, note there is a felt seal that fits over the bearing that the shaft fits through. This is...
• Re: 46mm socket for wheel bearing
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:07:43 -0600
  ...After you install bearings and grease drive back and get the nuts torqued. #2) The bearings do not need to be pressed out. #3...
• Re: Bearing wear
  Historical mailing list - Pat Dooley
  Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:47:34 -0000
  ...I am not 180 off on low rpm load causing bearing damage. If you squeeze the oil film out between the crank journal and...
• front wheel bearings
  Historical mailing list - Bradley Flubacher
  Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:22:24 -0500
  What an easy job! My father-in-law and I replaced the inner and outer front wheel bearings this weekend. What a terribly simply...
• Re: 2.1L Bearing jounal Inside diameters for crackcase
  Historical mailing list - Zoran Mladen
  Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:27:26 -0800
  Are you asking for the diameter of the case journal where the crank bearing go? Z --- Joe <jrbeckh@COX.NET> wrote: > Good Afternoon All...
• Chrome Muffler Bearing?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:56:18 -0800
  HAs anyone ever found a CV joint ball bearing in the bottom hose of a WBX 2.1 idle stabilizer hose? You know, the...
• Re: Whatz a Good price to service CVs?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:17:53 -0700
  ...That outer rear wheel bearing is under huge load. And adding some synthetic wheel bearing grease is better than doing nothing. if the rear...
• Re: rear wheel bearing question
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:52:49 -0700
  ...Can't say for sure if it's ok for wheel bearings though. A quick look at there website and I don't see...
• Re: Struck Oil, Rebuilt CV's and a Tense Trip Home
  Historical mailing list - Tom L. Salicos
  Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:26:59 -0800
  ...The rebuilts are not recycled shafts with new bearings, they are recycled shafts with recycled bearings. My vendor told me that the bearing races...
• Re: Pilot bearing grease type
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright
  Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:28:39 -0700
  ...I don't recall a big difference between each end of the needle bearing, but I don't have a loose one to check...
• Replacing wheel bearings
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 14 May 1997 00:10:03 -0400 (EDT)
  (I don't have a quoting reader, at the moment, this is a followup.) I caught the tail end of a 'removing bearings' tread...
• Re: stuck CV joint (kinda long)
  Historical mailing list - Tobin T. Copley
  Thu, 27 Jul 1995 07:30:19 -0700 (PDT)
  There are two main pieces to a CV joint (forget about the cage and the ball bearings themselves for a minute). 1) The splined...
• Re: Engine out--won't come apart. Need heads!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Shazam
  Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:15:23 -0700
  h ijim, I guess you wouldn't have the rod bearings apart since your pistons are still on.' but one they are off, you...
• Re: Are these bearings still usable??
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:50:29 -0500
  ...In aviation shop practice these bearing would - in all probability - be replaced. If the case has been split, and bearings not expected to be...
• Re: Front bearings...
  Historical mailing list - Mike Moery
  Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:07:11 -0900
  ...Front bearings... A copper drift is simply a punch that is softer than the bearing race. That way you won't damage the race...
• Re: 2 litre align-bore
  Historical mailing list - Dave Kautz
  Mon, 8 May 95 12:04:38 PDT
  ...Upon dismantling the case I discovered writing <VW logo and some numbers> on one of the main bearing journals <no. 2> which suggests to...
• wheel bearings
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn Ratjen
  Mon, 3 May 1999 08:25:25 -0700
  ...I took the rear wheel assembly apart and found the inner wheel bearing to be loose. Questions: 1. Should I replace both bearings ("while...
• Re: Trans noise
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 2 Oct 2018 16:12:55 +0000
  That was my thought at first.  Wheel bearing.  But the noise does not change while cornering or changing the direction of pressure on the...
• Re: Replacing steering rubber link with universal joint
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:09:56 -0400
  On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Chris Mills wrote: > The Supers had no bushings or bearings between the "X" and the end cages > apparently. I...
• Fwd: rear wheel bearings
  Historical mailing list - Gene P
  Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:35:05 -0700
  ...rear wheel bearings To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com ... how does it come apart?
• Re: Website update - See trashed bearings
  Historical mailing list - Robert Lilley
  Sat, 10 Nov 2001 21:07:09 EST
  ...BUT they both suffer from the same bearings problems... The WBX just take longer to get to the same point. I have counterweights and...
• Re: '86 Syncro wheel bearings(and front shocks)
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:30:34 -0500
  ...Be >careful, I am having trouble finding a bolt to replace it with. > .... > > I purchased the bearing from an industrial bearing supplier. Bearing >cost...
• new bearings and ball joints installation DIY
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Brobst
  Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:05:08 -0400
  I just replaced the upper and lower ball joints and front wheel bearings and seals in my 84 GL . To remove the lower ball...