<VV> Rear Wheel Bearings

[Larry Forman]

Hi Jim,
You do the best you can since you cannot pull off the outer rollers.  If you pull off the retaining ring for the inner rollers and remove the retaining cage and inner rollers, you might gain a little more clearance to the outer rollers.  Some of the bearings do have greater clearance and access with the bearings shells providing more movement and inspection access.  For some you can actually inspect all the rollers and inner corners, but not the outer roller corners.  I like using the spray brake clean with the straw for shooting into the rollers.  Same with using a needle injection on the hand grease gun.  It simply gets the grease into the roller areas better and a lot faster.

While the four retaining bolts will work fine, I like to use two small bolts with self locking nuts, with the nuts on the outside, to replace the rivets.  It just keeps everthing together for storage and installation ease.

If you have the CORSA Tech Guide and Supplement, most of this is excellently explained with good pictures for each step.
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Dallas" <BEC176 at msn.com>
To: Corvanatics <Corvanatics at corvair.org>, virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Subject: <VV> Rear Wheel Bearings
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 06:12:10 -0500

> 
> I have disassembled my rear bearings while still somewhat on my 61 
> Rampy, my question is how do I get into the outside bearing to 
> clean it and somewhat insure that I have gotten all the old nasty 
> stuff out?  Or is this one of those times you just do the best you 
> can do, relube and continue?  Also is it necessary that I re-rivet 
> the bearing together or can the four studs be considered acceptable?
> 
> Jim Dallas