found something unusual when tearing down the rear suspension: someone
in the past replaced the stock steel-backed bronze thrust packs with
needle
bearing thrust washers. They also used a "quad ring "as a grease seal.
A quad ring is like an "o ring" except the cross section is four
leaf cover-like, if that makes sense.
My question is: has anyone run into this before? how well does
it work? the roller bearings are rated @ 23,000 lbs static and 4,200 lbs
dynamic load. max RPM : 7,700.
Russ,
Photograph what you found. I bet there will be some interest here,
sounds like someone knew what they were doing!
Steve F.
in the past replaced the stock steel-backed bronze thrust packs with
needle
bearing thrust washers. They also used a "quad ring "as a grease seal.
A quad ring is like an "o ring" except the cross section is four
leaf cover-like, if that makes sense.
My question is: has anyone run into this before? how well does
it work? the roller bearings are rated @ 23,000 lbs static and 4,200 lbs
dynamic load. max RPM : 7,700.
Russ,
Photograph what you found. I bet there will be some interest here,
sounds like someone knew what they were doing!
Steve F.
