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The bearings last long enough, I don't know that you'd really see all that much benefit. I changed mine this past winter, they were original - so that's 27 years and 40-odd thousand miles. They still worked fine, but I feel better knowing that I have brand new sealed bearings in there that should last basically forever.
Wheel bearings are not a common failure item on early Wings.
The bearings last long enough, I don't know that you'd really see all that much benefit. I changed mine this past winter, they were original - so that's 27 years and 40-odd thousand miles. They still worked fine, but I feel better knowing that I have brand new sealed bearings in there that should last basically forever.
Wheel bearings are not a common failure item on early Wings.
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Ceramic ball bearings still have the steel races. Only the balls are made of the lighter ceramic material. If you want to switch to them, I would do some research first, since by nature, wheel bearings must endure a lot of impact-type loads at a relatively slow RPM (compared to high speed electrical motors for example).
I know that the ceramics can handle higher heat than steels, but the "ceramic" materials with which I am familiar, are somewhat more fragile to shock than steel.
The minimal research that I have done indicates that one major advantage to the ceramic balls is, in being lighter, they tend to "skip/slide" from 20% to 40% less than their steel bretheren during rapid acceleration/deceleration applications, thereby improving the failure ratio in those applications. :waving:
Ceramic ball bearings still have the steel races. Only the balls are made of the lighter ceramic material. If you want to switch to them, I would do some research first, since by nature, wheel bearings must endure a lot of impact-type loads at a relatively slow RPM (compared to high speed electrical motors for example).
I know that the ceramics can handle higher heat than steels, but the "ceramic" materials with which I am familiar, are somewhat more fragile to shock than steel.
The minimal research that I have done indicates that one major advantage to the ceramic balls is, in being lighter, they tend to "skip/slide" from 20% to 40% less than their steel bretheren during rapid acceleration/deceleration applications, thereby improving the failure ratio in those applications. :waving:
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