Rear hub bearings ?

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Originally Posted by adam_u

Can anybody point me in the direction of a retailer of the above-mentioned cheese bearings? They sound like the ones for me

Joking aside (yep it was a joke) I have actually learnt some interesting things about bearings from this thread - so, say, in an off road buggy bearings in the hubs would be better of rubber shielded whereas bearings in the drivetrain (provided it is reasonably well sealed) could live with being metal shielded (or teflon in the case of my Kyosho) - or given the fact that most of us have oodles of lipo capacity left over these days after a heat why not just go for rubber shielded throughout...is it really going to make that much difference?

Put my car out on a very wet and muddy track the other day and had a hub bearing seize almost immediately - they probably were overdue a little tlc to be fair but it had got me thinking about putting the rubber shielded ones in as they are also easier to strip down and blast out

Still haven't made up my mind on the ABEC debate but it has made me realise that higher doesn't mean better for our application

Well said! all the ones we sell are rubber shielded and tests so far appear to give a longer lasting bearing and easy to maintain.

im looking into and a pot of bearing oil in with all the kits in future OR release Lipzbitz own bearing cleaning kits, and yes these will probably come from china as its the only place I can find that sells them reasonably.