58 replies to this topic

[Fossy313]

Sp the verdict is try and get genuine??

[Fossy313]

So*

[Captain Mainwaring]

Sp the verdict is try and get genuine??

 

Yes....it would seem that some of this cheap stuff is possibly out of spec and at worst, substandard and dangerous.

[Fossy313]

Where's the best place other than minispares (cost to much postage to Channel Islands) that I could get some?

[Badboytunes]

Google should bring up some answers for you. There is one thing I would like to add regarding the greasing up of your bearing. You showed a pic of the race seated in the hub and the bearing in your and. You quoted that the bearing was greased. To me it was not. LM grease needs to be packed in really good, from the top side and the underside. If not your bearings will dry out quite quickly.

 

 

 

Cheers

[Tamworthbay]

Where's the best place other than minispares (cost to much postage to Channel Islands) that I could get some?

Have you phoned them up? Sometimes the website does silly things with postage, if you talk to them they can usually sort something out.

[Fossy313]

Ah, might be worth a try then thanks

[Fossy313]

Google should bring up some answers for you. There is one thing I would like to add regarding the greasing up of your bearing. You showed a pic of the race seated in the hub and the bearing in your and. You quoted that the bearing was greased. To me it was not. LM grease needs to be packed in really good, from the top side and the underside. If not your bearings will dry out quite quickly.
 
 
 
Cheers

Cheers for the tip mate, it's all a learning curve, when I get the timken ones down I will be sure to Grease more

[Badboytunes]

No problem. The more grease, the merrier. Once the bearing has been packed, slot it into the race and check it moves freely. The grease will give a slight bit of resistance and rotate smoothly.

 

 

Cheers

[tiger99]

But don't completely fill the space between the inner and outer bearings, just a little bit, and don't put any inside the dust cap, because if there is too much, it will expand when it gets warm, and find its way into the brakes. As correctly said above, you should indeed fill the bearings themselves as full as possible, i.e. the space inside the inner race and roller assembly, and a bit around the rollers on the outside. If you turn the inner race as you go, you will be able to get more in. I usually work it in with clean fingers, as LM is fairly harmless stuff when fresh.

[Fossy313]

Cheers guys, just gotta wait for the genuine bearings now, rather annoyed with minisport to be honest as they said they were genuine specification , never mind ! I have learnt my lesson

[Ethel]

They will be genuine spec - just not very well adhered to 

[Captain Mainwaring]

They will be genuine spec - just not very well adhered to 

 

Hehehe...yes quite. How much cheaper is some of this junk compared to buying OEM? I would have thought that the british motorist has become normalised to being ripped off, and that a Hokey-Kokey Bearing Co wheel bearing for a tenner against a genuine bearing for £25 was not a consideration.

 

I try as far as possible to only buy genuine - when yo live on the other side of the world, with freight and customs duty to worry about, a tenner here and there makes no sense.

[Fossy313]

That's if u have a tenner here or there to fling about, I have a strict budget to live by unfortunately, if I had all the money in the world it would be great hahaha! But least its something I won't do again, to be honest it's not the easiest tracking down timken wheel bearings so I went with minisport for a bulk order as I'm re doing he whole suspension, annoying thing is I have the rip off front bearings which I'm not even going to try

[mini 4o]

Fossy,

I to live on an island but there’s no mini parts shop,

its not all about money you pay for what you get,

 

if you replace with a genuine part which has been proven to work, and not a Patten part you will keep your mini more (lol) reliable . More driving more fun, unless you like fixing it every weekend.

 

John (off to the beach 30*)