Thread: Wheel bearings..

According to my information, the wheel bearings changed during Series 3 production in late 1980, to the same as the ones in the Stage 1. I am pretty certain these bearings remained the same in the early 110, and are probably the same as the RR classic, possibly remaining the same in Defender, at least until the change to grease lubricated bearings.

So there is no simple answer to your question - I believe the answer is the early 110 are the same as late Series 3 but different to most Series production.

John

From memory (been a while since I had to change a sereis wheel bearing)

they change when the drive member in the swivel changed from a UJ to a CV.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

From memory (been a while since I had to change a sereis wheel bearing)

they change when the drive member in the swivel changed from a UJ to a CV.

Not according to my information - certainly they changed from the ordinary S3 to the Stage 1 - but the same change was made from October 1980 on the standard S3 with U-joints not CV joints.

John

that I recall IVe never worked on a series thats newer than about 78.... easy enough to miss the late change in the series...

I wouldnt be surprised if it was a fleet wide change/supercedance on a drop date that marries up with the intro of the stage 1's.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

that I recall IVe never worked on a series thats newer than about 78.... easy enough to miss the late change in the series...

I wouldnt be surprised if it was a fleet wide change/supercedance on a drop date that marries up with the intro of the stage 1's.

The parts book gives October 1980, Stage 1 was in 1979 wasn't it? And all of them had the later bearings.

Of course, there is always the complication that the complete axle or even just the stub axle with hub and bearings are interchangeable right back to the first Series 2 (stub axle assembly back to S1 86), so there is no guarantee that what is on your Series Landrover was what it had when built.

John

I thought they were in 1980 and the preproduction "trial it and use up parts" ones were the ones done earlier.