B4 Rear Bearings

[Adam F]

The rear wheel bearings on the B4 FT seem to destroy themselves every meeting, have tried different brands, shims etc, but they wont last more than 5 or 6 races...

I am being carefull not to overtighten the wheels and strip and clean the whole car every run, so cant understand why they keep failing..

Any idea's/fixes welcome..

Cheers

Adam

[alexb4]

Have you tried the b44 rear hubs and bearings ?

[mark christopher]

you have the spacer between then in the rear hub?

try some rcbearings.co.uk

[Big G]

I never had a problem with my SC10 bearings. the only problem was with my B44 rear hubs when 1 of the large bearings seized up and then the smaller inside ones went after a very wet event when I didn't attend to them straight after.

B44 rear hubs and bearings are a direct swap AFAIK. as long as they are built to the manual there shouldn't be a problem.

[Adam F]

Those machined B44 hubs look very trick.... hmmm... might have to give those a go.

Cheers chaps..

[russmini]

I don't generally comment on Bearing Threads, but if they're only lasting that long, there can only be 3 Reasons...

Your not fitting them correctly, something is damaged somewhere else causing undue loads on them or They're really bad Quality.

I sell bearings for a living of every type and description you can think of and in my life only the first 2 apply. I don't sell cheap bearings

I would check everything really well, maybe the hubs have worn and this is causing them to sit wrong and this then is leading to premature failure...

[MHeadling]

My ones have been ok in my B4's but I do change them out if they get notchy.

You can run B44 rear hubs and bearings, the B44 hub has a larger outer bearing so this should do the trick.

Or if you are feeling flush you could put the Ali B44 rear hubs on it:

http://www.m-k-racing.com/product_in...d=6953&<osCsid>