replacing needle bearings in front beam

sean68 Officially Full-On Dubber

239 posts · joined Feb 2004 · 27 Jul 2005, 8:40 pm

#390624

Is it a good idea to replace the needle bearings in my ball joint front beam with the bugpack urethane ones

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Adam_C Custom Title Time!

1,180 posts · joined May 2003 · 28 Jul 2005, 12:32 am

#390731

unless they are shagged why bother?

Adam
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1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 28 Jul 2005, 10:17 am

#390806

I just repacked mine with grease. Apparently replacement bearings are a bit difficult to track down, but I'd suspect that needle bearings would be smoother and work better than urethane.

Jon

sean68 Officially Full-On Dubber

239 posts · joined Feb 2004 · 28 Jul 2005, 6:56 pm

#391017

yea i was told not to bother putting the urethane ones in if the bearings were ok
just wanted a few other opinions

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