Best wheel bearings

Birdman Wolfsburg Wizard

428 posts · joined May 2010 · 7 Jul 2012, 11:53 pm

#911549

Hey All,

With so many brands available and a lot of crap out there i need some opinions on the best quality brand of stock beetle wheel bearings? Cheers

tar76 Custom Title Time!

1,622 posts · joined Dec 2009 · 8 Jul 2012, 7:08 am

#911558

i'm off to get some front wheel bearings for my bus this morning so hopefully someone will reply. The only names i know is SKF?

"Obey your Dreams"!

62 Std beetle.
65 11 wnd Split "The Cross".
6? coming very soon!!!!

HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 · 8 Jul 2012, 7:32 am

#911560

You won't get much better than SKF.

I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!

vwo60 Veteran Volks Folk

2,036 posts · joined Feb 2007 · 8 Jul 2012, 9:58 am

#911585

Timken, the inventor of the tappered roller bearing, still the best and a industry standard where i work off shore.

matberry Moderator Go hard or go home

8,114 posts · joined Mar 2006 · 8 Jul 2012, 12:16 pm

#911596

Timken, NSK, SKF, FAG, all good quality. And don't forget, put in the best grease suitable for the job and don't preload the bearings, causes more failed bearings than you can imagine.

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69bug Officially Full-On Dubber

300 posts · joined Jan 2012 · 8 Jul 2012, 5:58 pm

#911641

wheres the best place to get them?

1969 1500

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 8 Jul 2012, 9:23 pm

#911711

vwo60 wrote:Timken, the inventor of the tappered roller bearing, still the best and a industry standard where i work off shore.

Yeah I never heard of them and wasn't keen on trying them, then I read made in USA laser etched on the cups and I was "hell yeah!"

great bearings! there is also SKF and SKA both Jap bearings also very nice.

don't know of any others though, but stay away from bearing that have no makings. I made that mistake on one of my cars and the front wheel bearings failed after 22kk/m and the cause was the race had a different tapper to the actual rollers 🙄

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

Birdman Wolfsburg Wizard

428 posts · joined May 2010 · 8 Jul 2012, 11:54 pm

#911735

I'd heard Timken were good but "made in america" is NOT an indication of quality to me.

vwo60 Veteran Volks Folk

2,036 posts · joined Feb 2007 · 9 Jul 2012, 7:36 am

#911744

As i said Timken are the standard were i work , used in machines that have a 100 % duty cycle that are not even shut down yearly for maintenance.

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 9 Jul 2012, 9:40 pm

#911866

Birdman wrote:I'd heard Timken were good but "made in america" is NOT an indication of quality to me.

better than saying made in china ! you know if its made in china is guaranteed to fail as it was engineered to fail so to speak lol

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 9 Jul 2012, 9:44 pm

#911869

vwo60 wrote:As i said Timken are the standard were i work , used in machines that have a 100 % duty cycle that are not even shut down yearly for maintenance.

1+

I went to a bearing supplier few months ago and they had these giant tapper bearings for some industrial application and they were Timken. Industrial application don't normally have cheapo versions of replacement parts. only consumer market has cheapo thats why its called "consumer"

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE