Post by cptkennykidna on Feb 21, 2018 15:53:12 GMT
recently a member asked about rear wheel bearings and where to get them, todays task was to find the sources, so here we go.
i will start with telling you that as David said these bearings should be common because car makers tried to standardize. they are used often on industrial applications so availability is not a problem. please do not google them as some are the wrong bearings being offered with tatty packaging and are over priced anyway. [ another cup of tea please Julia ]. one bearing i looked at was for the radius arm with the front wheel bearing part number you would have been disappointed on receiving that.[ thank you Julia ].
item 1/. rear inner bearing is part no LM67048/10 = cone and cup or bearing and race they are both descriptions of a single complete assembly often called a set.
this set is called set 6 because it has a broad application range, how broad ?, it is only listed as the rear inner on our 1800/2200 cars but comes up as the front inner on at least 26 other cars including Chevrolet-Chrysler-Dodge-Ford-Rambler-Mercedes-Volvo-Toyota-Fiat-Jaguar-Triumph-MG-Rover-Holden and many more, this does not include any industrial uses. Who makes them?. probably every major manufacturer in the world Timken manufacture in England-Poland-Brasil-Australia and that is a few of the Timken producers, NTN Bower in the U.S.A are the biggest bearing manufacturer in North America and you can include them, also Koyo-SKF and you can try them all and more.
item 2/. rear outer bearing is part no L44649/10 = cone and cup, the /10= the cup on each set, this pair i have not got a set number for but i think there is one, let you know later. similar to before i only have it listed here as rear outer for 1800/2200 range but it comes up as the front inner on at least 10 makes of cars including Marina-Chrysler= Valiant-Datsun-Ford-Hillman-Holden-Toyota-Triumph-Vauxhall-Volkswagen also as Triumph rear inner and more. N.B.please note that references i am using only cover the years between 1960 to 1973 so there will have been many more applications after 1973 for all these bearings.[ more tea Julia ].
item 3/. front wheel bearing part no LM48548/AY is only listed in my reference as for the 1800/2200 cars but that is only because of the /AY which is the spacer, a part that is no longer available to my knowledge here in Australia. O.K.! take away the /AY and you are back with part no LM48548, add the cup =/10 and your part no is LM48548/10 called set 5. often sold as separate parts LM48548 = cone or bearing as previously mentioned and cup= race LM48510, so if you cannot get set 5 you will have to quote the two separate numbers. O.K. this bearing without the spacer is used for agricultural hubs amongst other things which include our cars widely used in trailer / machinery hubs. on pulling apart 1800/2200 hubs i have found all those bearing makes previously mentioned including NTN Bower U.S.A no reason to think that you cannot get this bearing, i pay $18.19 including 10% tax for the set=set 5.if you really cannot find them then contact me and i will do my best for you.
item 4/.the no longer available spacer that is, here in Aus. you may still get the proper kit in the U.K. but i have never trusted the accuracy of the hub registers, they did not use CNC machines so it must have been very tedious for the machinist to get the registers within a couple of thou given the end float on the bearings is zero to .002 in. if you bruised the edge of the registers as you knocked the old bearings out that would make it even more difficult to get the setup accurate. the CBC bearing kits that used to be available in Australia had a spacer of 1.125 in that i always found to big, but shortened with care they where fine.i will try to post some pics when i finally get on flickr of a dummy CV joint i use to work my way back to a satisfactory spacer thickness. in Aus they introduced 8 spacers very late in the production of the Kimberley and Tasman which where hand written into the parts manual. i have some here so i know it is true, sadly they do not come up to the size i normally use. hang five on the flickr bit and maybe in the mean time i can source some tube for machining
i will start with telling you that as David said these bearings should be common because car makers tried to standardize. they are used often on industrial applications so availability is not a problem. please do not google them as some are the wrong bearings being offered with tatty packaging and are over priced anyway. [ another cup of tea please Julia ]. one bearing i looked at was for the radius arm with the front wheel bearing part number you would have been disappointed on receiving that.[ thank you Julia ].
item 1/. rear inner bearing is part no LM67048/10 = cone and cup or bearing and race they are both descriptions of a single complete assembly often called a set.
this set is called set 6 because it has a broad application range, how broad ?, it is only listed as the rear inner on our 1800/2200 cars but comes up as the front inner on at least 26 other cars including Chevrolet-Chrysler-Dodge-Ford-Rambler-Mercedes-Volvo-Toyota-Fiat-Jaguar-Triumph-MG-Rover-Holden and many more, this does not include any industrial uses. Who makes them?. probably every major manufacturer in the world Timken manufacture in England-Poland-Brasil-Australia and that is a few of the Timken producers, NTN Bower in the U.S.A are the biggest bearing manufacturer in North America and you can include them, also Koyo-SKF and you can try them all and more.
item 2/. rear outer bearing is part no L44649/10 = cone and cup, the /10= the cup on each set, this pair i have not got a set number for but i think there is one, let you know later. similar to before i only have it listed here as rear outer for 1800/2200 range but it comes up as the front inner on at least 10 makes of cars including Marina-Chrysler= Valiant-Datsun-Ford-Hillman-Holden-Toyota-Triumph-Vauxhall-Volkswagen also as Triumph rear inner and more. N.B.please note that references i am using only cover the years between 1960 to 1973 so there will have been many more applications after 1973 for all these bearings.[ more tea Julia ].
item 3/. front wheel bearing part no LM48548/AY is only listed in my reference as for the 1800/2200 cars but that is only because of the /AY which is the spacer, a part that is no longer available to my knowledge here in Australia. O.K.! take away the /AY and you are back with part no LM48548, add the cup =/10 and your part no is LM48548/10 called set 5. often sold as separate parts LM48548 = cone or bearing as previously mentioned and cup= race LM48510, so if you cannot get set 5 you will have to quote the two separate numbers. O.K. this bearing without the spacer is used for agricultural hubs amongst other things which include our cars widely used in trailer / machinery hubs. on pulling apart 1800/2200 hubs i have found all those bearing makes previously mentioned including NTN Bower U.S.A no reason to think that you cannot get this bearing, i pay $18.19 including 10% tax for the set=set 5.if you really cannot find them then contact me and i will do my best for you.
item 4/.the no longer available spacer that is, here in Aus. you may still get the proper kit in the U.K. but i have never trusted the accuracy of the hub registers, they did not use CNC machines so it must have been very tedious for the machinist to get the registers within a couple of thou given the end float on the bearings is zero to .002 in. if you bruised the edge of the registers as you knocked the old bearings out that would make it even more difficult to get the setup accurate. the CBC bearing kits that used to be available in Australia had a spacer of 1.125 in that i always found to big, but shortened with care they where fine.i will try to post some pics when i finally get on flickr of a dummy CV joint i use to work my way back to a satisfactory spacer thickness. in Aus they introduced 8 spacers very late in the production of the Kimberley and Tasman which where hand written into the parts manual. i have some here so i know it is true, sadly they do not come up to the size i normally use. hang five on the flickr bit and maybe in the mean time i can source some tube for machining
