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Is there anything left to mount the milk crate ?

lol

Now, My VK eats front wheel bearing. They get leaned on pretty effing hard. VT calipers and rotors, hubs were from Tony at ...., um can't remember.

The outer bearings cop a flogging, twice making metal flakes. Then the inner race over heats and burns the rollers. They usually last about 40k.

I've tried different styles of grease, HTB, APX-T ... different bearings... checked the float, dial in the rotors.

Bloody tempted to fit VR/VS struts, knuckles & tie rods with VT hubs. The slightly wider track won't hurt, can fit a wider VN-VS diff to compensate at the rear.
Might have a bit of camber if I can find a bearing plate to fit VR-VS struts into a VB-VK. Bigger shock shaft diameter.

Do you find accelerated wear with larger rotors and fat wheels too?

ralcool wrote:Now, My VK eats front wheel bearing. They get leaned on pretty effing hard. VT calipers and rotors, hubs were from Tony at ...., um can't remember.

The outer bearings cop a flogging, twice making metal flakes. Then the inner race over heats and burns the rollers. They usually last about 40k.

I've tried different styles of grease, HTB, APX-T ... different bearings... checked the float, dial in the rotors.

Bloody tempted to fit VR/VS struts, knuckles & tie rods with VT hubs. The slightly wider track won't hurt, can fit a wider VN-VS diff to compensate at the rear.
Might have a bit of camber if I can find a bearing plate to fit VR-VS struts into a VB-VK. Bigger shock shaft diameter.

Do you find accelerated wear with larger rotors and fat wheels too?

Do you change bearing and cups together as a kit, or just the bearings?

I found the angles of the cups are a matching set and can't be mixed otherwise luck has it they fail quick.

There used to be a aftermarket strut top that took the VS strut shaft. Maybe K Mac?

HQ355 wrote:Is there anything left to mount the milk crate ?

Nope milk crate weight to much had to Get rid of it as well by the look of it

Do you find accelerated wear with larger rotors and fat wheels too?

No, never need to do anything to them (in ten years worth of racing..) Like Vlad says, make sure you use good quality bearings that are matched.

I would sit in a milk crate if they'd let me

ralcool wrote:Now, My VK eats front wheel bearing. They get leaned on pretty effing hard. VT calipers and rotors, hubs were from Tony at ...., um can't remember.

The outer bearings cop a flogging, twice making metal flakes. Then the inner race over heats and burns the rollers. They usually last about 40k.

I've tried different styles of grease, HTB, APX-T ... different bearings... checked the float, dial in the rotors.

Bloody tempted to fit VR/VS struts, knuckles & tie rods with VT hubs. The slightly wider track won't hurt, can fit a wider VN-VS diff to compensate at the rear.
Might have a bit of camber if I can find a bearing plate to fit VR-VS struts into a VB-VK. Bigger shock shaft diameter.

Do you find accelerated wear with larger rotors and fat wheels too?

Sounds like to much pre-load on the bearings.

I had issues with my new 17's rubbing on the inside of the strut (car previously had original 14" factory wheels, 17's were from a VT), all I did was wash out the original bearings, re-grease with Omega 77 grease and slightly increase the bearing pre-load. Wheels ran straight and true and never had any more issues with rubbing or wheels bearings flexing etc.

I know there is a kit that allows you to use bigger bearings on the factory VB-VP struts, the bigger inner bearing becomes the outer bearing and you fit a new larger inner bearing. There is a sleeve that fits over the stub shaft to facilitate the use of the bigger bearings.

I know HDT and Peter Brock had issues with wheel bearings, it was the year they used the 10" wide rims and fancy F1 brakes. They were getting so much flex in the wheel bearing hub assembly that the brake rotor was rubbing against the side of the brake calliper. The fix? They machined out the gap in the brake calliper.....

lol

I have kind of gone down this road, when fitting the VT twin piston brakes to the Bedford I had to find bearings to suit the Bedford larger diameter stub axle, ended up being a falxon inner bearing (same outer diameter as the commodore hub) and then machined the hub out a few mm to suit the bedfords outer bearing!