Rick Fischer
25th August 2015, 04:21 PM
Big "B" service done on SVX - Takes a while :)
Back to $1 - Built up the rear axles and bearings pack. Had to polish out some cuts to try and prevent fatigue; these were inserted by the bearing retainer remover, [a "not happy Jan" moment when I latterly found them]. Hopefully the retainer will keep that area in compression. So that lot is now ready for the press.
It is quite obvious why those bearings fail :( How about an oil/grease soaked felt between the axle and the hub to cover protect the bearing; or does there end up being too much wet crap going up into that space???
Had to get new fescolized balls (still covered in preservative) and have inserted the taper roller race and the bronze bush. Did a silly thing, smeared the ground steel taper with prussian blue and checked the "bearing". Silly boy! Now I'm scraping the sucker and still have the other one to look at and do too.
More later.
Oh well scraping and bluing is cathartic :D Probably anal as well!
Toad, those drawings for the special tools??
Cheers
Rick F
Back to $1 - Built up the rear axles and bearings pack. Had to polish out some cuts to try and prevent fatigue; these were inserted by the bearing retainer remover, [a "not happy Jan" moment when I latterly found them]. Hopefully the retainer will keep that area in compression. So that lot is now ready for the press.
It is quite obvious why those bearings fail :( How about an oil/grease soaked felt between the axle and the hub to cover protect the bearing; or does there end up being too much wet crap going up into that space???
Had to get new fescolized balls (still covered in preservative) and have inserted the taper roller race and the bronze bush. Did a silly thing, smeared the ground steel taper with prussian blue and checked the "bearing". Silly boy! Now I'm scraping the sucker and still have the other one to look at and do too.
More later.
Oh well scraping and bluing is cathartic :D Probably anal as well!
Toad, those drawings for the special tools??
Cheers
Rick F