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Re: Rear Wheel Bearings - Alternatives to OEM?
How many times have you replaced them? I did my left left one 14K miles ago and the left one about 10K miles back and no problems since. The previous ones looked to have gone bad from water getting into the races while the car sat on the lot and rusting the outer races of the bearings. If some cars keep eating bearings and others only go through one set in a lifetime, I have to think there's something wrong with the car.
As for alternatives, Timken is the only one I've heard of. There was some talk about the rear bearings from the Imprezas being the same dimensions as ours, and I believe someone else found a bearing that had identical inner and outer diameters, but wasn't as wide as ours, which required a spacer be used. That last one was rated for some stupendous amount of weight, far in excess of a car.
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Last edited by Crazy_pilot; 02-10-2009 at 09:36 PM.
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