ratman Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 Dose any one have wheel bearing proplems with them ?? I have a set of Hi-spec hubs & disks I ajusted them about a month ago have done less than 100 miles checking the car over for MOT and there is play in them again never had this proplem with the steel hub Any one ??? or as Gaz says have i payed top dolla for shit parts (again)
johnny_h Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 Myself and Noodles got a set of alloy hubs from Rally Design and they had to be machined out quite a few thou to fit the bearings.
pauln Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 Mine (rally design, no bearing fit problems) seemed ok for the couple of hundred miles I had them on (had to go back to the steel ones when i went for a different brake setup). Had to adjust the play once but I'm always scared to do them up too tight anyway.
V8ian Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 I would be guessing its the cheap bearings made in Lower Umbongo, and made from the best possible materials, [of course]
Nettles Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 Myself and Noodles got a set of alloy hubs from Rally Design and they had to be machined out quite a few thou to fit the bearings. More like Rally Re-Design Bearing race's not fitting correctly and the wheel stud holes to small for the studs supplied. Not what you should expect for the money you pay
Tom Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 It's down to the discretion of the tester at the end of the day mate
johnny_h Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 Myself and Noodles got a set of alloy hubs from Rally Design and they had to be machined out quite a few thou to fit the bearings. More like Rally Re-Design Bearing race's not fitting correctly and the wheel stud holes to small for the studs supplied. Not what you should expect for the money you pay Probably why they are half the price of Burtons.
Guest MK1gaz Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 Hi Steve , i've got the same hubs as yourself and they've been ok mate . They supplied me with the wheel bearings as well which were a tight fit . I had to grind a bit off the inside rear of my front wheel centres though as the wheels got stuck fast over them !!!!!!!
Retromotorsport Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 To fit bearings in alloy hubs .. place hub in an oven 200c, and bearing in freezer, leave the bearing in the freezer overnight and the hub in the oven for an hour .. then slip the bearings into the hub. Quite often i dont even have to push them in
Fiesta Steve Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 To fit bearings in alloy hubs .. place hub in an oven 200c, Do you know what setting that would be on a 700 watt Microwave ?
fezza Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 To fit bearings in alloy hubs .. place hub in an oven 200c, Do you know what setting that would be on a 700 watt Microwave ?
Nettles Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 To fit bearings in alloy hubs .. place hub in an oven 200c, and bearing in freezer, leave the bearing in the freezer overnight and the hub in the oven for an hour .. then slip the bearings into the hub. Quite often i dont even have to push them in Tried this but as soon as you insert the frozen bearing race in to the hot hub it instantly heats up and expands. I had some billet alloy hubs made for my ’53 Anglia to convert the Viva hubs back to a Ford PCD and I had absolutely no hassle fitting the bearings and everything fitted together perfect. After the amount of hassle we had with the alloy hubs my brother Noodles brought from Rally Design I’m convinced that they were not machined correctly and that maybe rather than struggling perhaps we should have returned them.
Retromotorsport Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 nettles, i've fitted a fair few of these and mainly from rally badly designed .. and i've always dropped them in. and when replacing bearings i also drop them in the oven, helps get the buggers back out, but thats just a 15minute heat up
Nettles Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 nettles, i've fitted a fair few of these and mainly from rally badly designed .. and i've always dropped them in. and when replacing bearings i also drop them in the oven, helps get the buggers back out, but thats just a 15minute heat up Perhaps I should have given them to you to fit and saved myself a load of hassle. I wouldn’t mind but while trying to push the races in I managed to smash myself in the head with my fly-press handle and almost knocked myself out! I was seeing bloody stars for about an hour.
ratman Posted April 28, 2008 Author Report Posted April 28, 2008 Hi Steve , i've got the same hubs as yourself and they've been ok mate . They supplied me with the wheel bearings as well which were a tight fit . I had to grind a bit off the inside rear of my front wheel centres though as the wheels got stuck fast over them !!!!!!! The bearings outer was pre- fitted by hi-spec all I had to do was grease the bearing and fit the seal and like you i couldent get the wheel to fit so had to have a few tho taken off the hub over priced crap
Darran Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 Best to buy alloy hubs off gartrac Pay the little bit extra and get parts that work Tryed to cut corners on cheap parts it just dont pay
BIG G Posted April 28, 2008 Report Posted April 28, 2008 give um 3/4 of a turn on the nut as this will be the bearings settling down. you could also paint a mark on the outer race to the hub the when you strip um next you can see the race moving in the hub.
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