Lol, they're perfectly acceptable ball bearings im sure. Being that they are highly polished steel spheres, I don't think it would be a stretch (its fuking obvious) that those are reflections.

Yea, that's just a reflection. These things tend to happen when you have so many shiny balls crammed together... :naughty:

Hah, it does say "Deep Groove" so I thought perhaps they're not normal perfectly spherical bearings. As I said, noob to this stuff.

No that was a few years ago, and the engine was down on power and pissing oil everywhere so that car got parted after it ate the 3rd engine.

New balls came today. Bought from the seller that Shuiend linked. The exact ones I bought are these, unfortunately either stock are not 13/32 or the ones I was sent were not.

I knew it right when I popped the first new bearing into the plastic retainer. It fell out whereas the old bearing remained in place. Will head to Harbor Freight tomorrow to get some calipers so I can determine the size I was sent. Hopefully can return.

Here's a pic to show the difference. 10 OEM balls on top. 10 eBay 13/32 balls on the bottom.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...ca1ab7ab0f.jpg


Night wasn't a complete bust though, the repacked hub with CV2 was pretty smooth. Can't wait to test it out in the car tomorrow.

I will say I bought the balls completely based on some measurements I saw on here. It is very possible that I bought the wrong size originally. I have yet to repack bearings so I have yet to actually measure them myself.

Im gonna go measure a ball for yall

This mic reads about 3-4 tenths big. So pretty much dead on 13/32".

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...438af9aa33.jpg


Taken from the inside race of a timken hub.
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...psc1fotcpl.jpg

The assumption here is of course that all hubs by all manufacturers all use the same bearings ;)

It happens, I did the same thing without due diligence and double checking .. :rofl:

Thanks for measuring that off Sean. I guess your Timken is 13/32. Now that I think about it, there's no guarantee that even different year OEM have same bearing size. Definitely measure your own before buying if going this route. Unfortunately this will add to downtime in many cases as most won't have spare hubs.

That is correct, Gordon.

Some hubs don't even use the same number of balls. Some of the earlier cars used 11 or 12 balls per race. They are apparently gold to SM players.

Lost a Mazdaspeed HD. It lasted a total of 11 track days (about 20 hours). So, no advantage there that I can discern. I slapped on a repacked China hub with OK machining.

Given how long these hubs last I've given up on the idea of repacking. I just going to for the best quality I can within reason and running them until they go (I always keep two spares with me).

If I don't see a significant durability increase out of the one I just slapped on (I don't have high hopes), I will do exactly the same. I'm really fast at swapping hubs these days.

Yup, I can swap a hub in much less time than the time it would take me to repack...also less messy too.

I made a tool to re-pack my front hubs , it rakes about 3 minutes to pump some fresh grease between track days, is anyone interested in one? My cost is $75 a picece when having 10 made.
i will make a batch if there are takers.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...6751799df1.jpg
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f0a58ec3d0.jpg

How does it work? Definitely interested.

You isert the tool from the wheel side and it provides a seal between the front of the hub and the back bearing inner bore forcing the grease through the balls and races, all the old grease comes out the upright side, i was not about to disassemble the bearings every time i re pack them. Let me see if this link works

Kinda like this?