What grease should I use in that bearing?

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:35 AM, SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott ) <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> It's not the daimter so much as it is smoothness of the surface...
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> a cheapism of VW , to make the input shaft a bearing surface also.
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> if it's not fairly smooth, and you can't get to a fair amount of
> smoothness ...a new or better input shaft is in order.
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> On 8/15/2015 6:34 AM, Mark Milby wrote:
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> Good Info all, Thanks. I was not sure about the Dia., thesamba seemed to
> have conflicting opinions. I have an '85.
> I will see when I get it. I have an "INA" bearing with the felt washer as a
> back up but do not trust the quality since that is the part that failed so
> catastrophically.
>
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> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> If the pilot bearing is shot you need to look carefully at the input
> shaft. If it is chewed up it will need to be replaced. That diesel bearing
> may look like it fits. When the flywheel goes on it will collapse the outer
> shell and the input shaft will not be able to spin free or it may even jam
> as the trans is being reinstalled.
>
> Dennis
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>] On Behalf
> Of Mark Milby
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 8:43 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Pilot bearing failure
>
> You guys were right. After pulling the bearing, all of the pieces where
> contained in the end of the crankshaft. So it is all cleaned up and I am
> putting in the diesel style pilot bearing and doing away with the felt
> washer and retaining ring.
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:49 PM, SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott ) <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
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>
> assuming this is a waterboxer ..
> is the felt seal and retaining ring for it there ?
>
> I've seen many missing.
>
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> On 8/13/2015 10:14 AM, vw_van_fan_Mark wrote:
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> Exactly. No way for the pilot bearing bits to get into the engine.
>
> Mark
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> PSD wrote:
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> I'm pretty sure the pilot bearing goes into a blind hole.  That's
> the way it is on most engines.  You shouldn't have any problem.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>] On
> Behalf Of Mark Milby
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:54 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Pilot bearing failure
>
> So where do all of the little roller in the pilot bearing go when it
> has catastrophic failure. Many of them were on the flywheel. What I
> am worried about is the ones that potentially went into the motor.
> Is that possible.
> It is to dark to see through the hole in the crankshaft.
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