<VV> EM rear wheel bearings

[Tony Underwood]

At 04:29 hours 10/10/2006, Dave Schneider wrote:
>Andy asked about some EM rear wheel bearings. I have posted pictures 
>of the two styles on the Milwaukee Corvair Club website. Hopefully 
>someone can shed some light on the non factory bearings. Pleas use 
>this link to see the pictures:
>
>   http://milwcorvairclub.web.aplus.net/id38.html
>



First photo, both bearings pictured:

Bearing on left:       GOOD
Bearing on right.    *NOT* GOOD!


Left bearing; two-part outer race, barrel rollers, swivels as the 
Almighty intended.   The other bearing described as the Green bearing 
won't swivel.   The early Corvair rear wheel bearing MUST swivel or 
the suspension will bind up and ruin the bearing in short 
order.    It could even flex the bearing shell and cause it to 
crack/break and the axle and inner bearing assembly could then exit 
the vehicle, not a good thing.

Never use a rear wheel bearing that has only one outer race, and does 
not swivel.   Such bearings have two rows of standard bearing balls 
which may well be of good quality construction but they're simply 
wrong for Corvair applications.


tony..