<VV> Greasing axle bearings

[shortle]

Another way to deal with this issue is (to me) the easiest and most reliable. On my '62 Monza Wagon I removed both and sent them over to Steve Goodman at REAR ENGINE SPECIALIST who redid both for a very fair price. They both came back cleaned, blasted, painted, and repacked. Even though I have every shop manual, tech guides,and assembly manuals in my Corvair library this was (by far) the way to go for me and my own piece of mind. I just did a 900 mile trip in this car last week.
Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado


-----Original Message-----
>From: Ray Rodriguez III <vairguy at echoes.net>
>Sent: Mar 20, 2011 11:31 PM
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org, tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
>Subject: Re: <VV> Greasing axle bearings
>
>Wait, I'm confused.
>
>I'm a little fuzzy on what exactly the difference in procedure between the 
>riveted and the cast type bearings is.
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>My interpretation of the combined posts by Frank and Tony is that when you 
>open the 63-64 cast type you only have minimal access from the back and 
>can't easily inspect the bearings (but it is somewhat possible as Tony 
>described) and properly re-packing the bearing will require a needle type 
>grease injector, whereas the earlier riveted type come right apart and the 
>internals can easily be cleaned, checked, and packed by hand... is that 
>about right?
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>Ray R.
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