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posted by  Belinda on  Sat Apr 23 07:26 CST 2005
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I cleaned up one of the old Swedish-made wheel bearings off the front wheel of the PS of my PV444, and tried to inspect it comparative to a brand new Japenese bearing (bought from Scandix). I can't really tell if the old ones are bad, and don't know how old the are. How can you tell? There's a little bit more wear on the rollers of the old.

L-old, R-new wheel bearings

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    uid 5771's pic
    posted by  skeet on  Sat Apr 23 08:52 CST 2005
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    The way I check wheel bearings is to first be sure they are very clean, and look for any pitting or obvious discoloration on the rollers and look at the outer race (which will be in the drum or rotor)for any markings that look suspiciously like wear. Then the bearing inside the outer race, hold pressure on the inner race and rotate it back and forth. If the bearing is OK it will feel very smooth as you turn it. If it is not smooth-replace it.








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      posted by  someone claiming to be guayule on  Sat Apr 30 17:23 CST 2005 [RELATED]

      I noticed there are some Timken rear PV 444 544 wheel bearings for sale on e-bay. Just curious if anyone has installed these on their car. If so, how do they sound?








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    posted by  mcduck on  Sat Apr 23 08:18 CST 2005
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    PV front bearings are so over-spec'd that they don't actually wear out, they corrode out(rears, too), unless they've been run without lube.
    The most I've ever seen, from wear, is a slight dulling of the bearing surfaces, as your pictures demonstrate, in 40+ years and 250K+ miles.








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      uid 4846's pic
      posted by  JohnMc on  Sat Apr 23 09:47 CST 2005
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      I'd suspect the original bearings would outlast any new replacements, even with a 40 year head start.
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        posted by  Barongrey on  Sat Apr 23 16:22 CST 2005
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        Everyone is right...the only thing you need to inspect are the surfaces that touch each other; i.e. the roller bearing surfaces and the surfaces of the two races. Everything should have a nice clean sheen to it - obvious wear or pitting means you'll want new bearings.

        Be sure to wash out all the old grease (inside the wheel too!) and apply new high-temp wheel bearing grease. If you don't mind getting your hands messy, you can quite easily re-grease them yourself.

        Put a blob of grease in the palm of your hand, and press the EDGE of the bearing roller cage assembly into it.

        What you are trying to do is to force new grease through the edge of the roller cage and into the spaces between the roller bearings. When you have new grease coming out of the top side of the bearing assembly, you have enough grease in the bearing.

        You can also buy or sometimes rent a tool that will do this same task, but all it does is keep your hands clean. ;-)






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