Subject: RE: Loctite on carrier bearings?
Author: Greg Bender
Date: May 10, 2005, 4:07 AM
Post ID: 1718838731
Interesting...I've got a trashed carrier bearing from my Quota laying
around. If that will work, just send me your address and I'll mail it to
you.
greg @ thisoldtractor . com
And, yes, I do keep old bearings and sometimes old seals. They'll never
do me any good and I'll never re-install them, but I've got a gallon
ziplock bag full of them. Pack rat that I am :>
Greg Field wrote:
I've been gluing u-joints to carrier bearings with red loctite for some time now, but after an experiment I did the other day with a ruined u-j and carrier, I wonder whether it's really a good idea. I cleaned the parts well, goobered them up with loctite, and fitted one over the other. After letting it bond for a few hours, I tested the strength of the joint by trying to twist and then pound them apart. Just the two parts, not installed in the swingarm. No dice, not even with my biggest hammer. To get them to separate, I had to use the big hammer, lots of heat directly on the carrier race and enough pounding that the entire carrier was broken to schrapnel. There isn't a prayer that you'd get them apart if they were already installed in the swingarm because you could not get heat directly to the carrier-bearing race, and you'd pound the circlip right out of the swingarm. So, if the bond held through all the twisting forces of daily use, you could never disassemble the u-joint and swingarm again, and if the bond didn't hold, what's the point of using loctite? Bad, either way. If I had another trashed bearing, I'd try the blue loctite to see how tough that is to disassemble. GF |
Regards,
Greg Bender
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2000 Quota
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