Re: Axle bearings
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Just remember,if you go green you have to remove the thrust block in the diff.
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Re: Axle bearings
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08/09/22 10:04 PM
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Ive seen almost zero problems from oem bearings. I only have to replace them in rebuilding a rear end because of the said leaking grease seal. It’s usual the inner seal that lets 90 wt leak. So true. "Green" bearings was just a marketing ploy to replace tapered with standard (cheaper) roller bearings. Using the claim of no-more-axle-play adjustment, as if that is a really hard task to do. Similar to the POR-15 products: Take an existing industrial coating, market it as "Paint" Over Rust for the automotive field. That sure was a "winner".
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Re: Axle bearings
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I would stay with the OEM bearings. Mine been on for years. Outer rear axle seal; not a big deal to change. Just undo the flange nuts, pull the axle, pull out the old seal, put in the new seal. Forgot to ask, is an early 8 3/4 rear with the tapered bearings?
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Re: Axle bearings
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08/10/22 12:44 PM
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Ive seen almost zero problems from oem bearings. I only have to replace them in rebuilding a rear end because of the said leaking grease seal. It’s usual the inner seal that lets 90 wt leak. So true. "Green" bearings was just a marketing ploy to replace tapered with standard (cheaper) roller bearings. Using the claim of no-more-axle-play adjustment, as if that is a really hard task to do. ^^^^^^^^^^^ This. Many people are intimidated by a simple procedure.
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Re: Axle bearings
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leaking? if the end play is too loose it wear out the seals 0.0030-0.0050 inches end play green bearings are over rated and not recommended for road course laps no matter what the talented dayclona says.  i have way more many hot laps than he does...lol
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Re: Axle bearings
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DrDiff articlePersonally I feel the sideload argument is invalid because either bearing is stronger than the retainer plate. As DrDiff pointed out in the above link people that have had problems with Greens are probably using the early version that some suppliers still sell. I guess if I was going to roadrace and the axle bearings were keeping me awake at night I would call Mark Williams and ask them instead of asking for opinions on a forum.
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Re: Axle bearings
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08/11/22 12:31 AM
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DrDiff articlePersonally I feel the sideload argument is invalid because either bearing is stronger than the retainer plate. As DrDiff pointed out in the above link people that have had problems with Greens are probably using the early version that some suppliers still sell. I guess if I was going to roadrace and the axle bearings were keeping me awake at night I would call Mark Williams and ask them instead of asking for opinions on a forum. It's not the overall strength of the bearing, but rather the use of the bearing. Tapered, by design, are for axial loads & radial loads. Non-tapered for radial only. Axial loads are present when turning. Either will probably be fine with a car seeing road few miles, but that's not the designers' had in mind then.
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Re: Axle bearings
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08/11/22 11:20 PM
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You only have to remove the thrust buttons if your diff has those - if you have a thrust block, it is retained on the cross pin and can't go anywhere. You'll just want to make sure you aren't bottomed out on it.
There was such bad tolerance stack in my E-body 8-3/4 that with the factory axles/bearings, the adjuster had pulled the right side axle to the point the brake drum was lightly touching the backing plate when you'd go around corners. I switched to the green style bearings so I'd have controlled end stick out distance on each side.
Overall, neither bearing design is perfect. Tapered bearings work best in pairs (reference front wheel bearing design) and handle side loads better; the tapered type bearing wants to naturally walk out of the race due to the angle. The mopar adjuster design works with the tapered bearings because of the ability to adjust end play, other makes don't have that ability. The "green" style roller bearings don't handle side loads well but don't require the setup effort. If you aren't autocrossing or road course racing the car, you aren't going to generate enough side load to trash the green/roller bearings. If you look at Moser, Strange, and even Mark Williams, they sell sealed ball bearings with their axles as standard. If that style bearing was a liability, you wouldn't see everyone using them. Just two different approaches...
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Re: Axle bearings
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∆∆∆∆. Exactly. The O.P. is not doing the type of racing that needs a tapered roller so either should work fine. However the adjustable tapered bearing as opposed to fixed location ball bearing could cause issues with disc brakes. That's could not will. Just throwing that out there.
Do racecars that heavily sideoad like Nascar, Indy or F1 use single tapered bearings like we are discusing or do they us opposed tapered bearings and floating axles? Just curious.
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Re: Axle bearings
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F1 uses a ball bearing but not a single-row like the Green, they use dual preloaded ball bearings.
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Re: Axle bearings
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F1 uses a ball bearing but not a single-row like the Green, they use dual preloaded ball bearings. Are those bearings spherical or cylindrical?
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Re: Axle bearings
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Do racecars that heavily sideoad like Nascar, Indy or F1 use single tapered bearings like we are discusing or do they us opposed tapered bearings and floating axles? Just curious.
Last time I checked, Nascar was using 9" rears with super speedway floater ends - there were opposed pairs of tapered bearings in each hub.
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Re: Axle bearings
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F1 uses a ball bearing but not a single-row like the Green, they use dual preloaded ball bearings. Are those bearings spherical or cylindrical? They would have to be spherical.
Last edited by JohnRR; 08/16/22 09:03 AM. Reason: used the wrong word ... yikes
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Re: Axle bearings
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F1 uses a ball bearing but not a single-row like the Green, they use dual preloaded ball bearings. Are those bearings spherical or cylindrical? They would have to be cylindrical. On 2nd look, you are correct. My Bad.
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Re: Axle bearings
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F1 uses a ball bearing but not a single-row like the Green, they use dual preloaded ball bearings. Are those bearings spherical or cylindrical? They would have to be cylindrical. On 2nd look, you are correct. My Bad. My bad I copy and pasted the wrong word , they are spherical , the drawing make then look like a cylinder because that is how a 2d drawing makes a BALL look .
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