no inventory to be had via the Goodyear dealers distribution warehouse. We
picked our tires up finally in late January/04 that came direct from
overseas in a Marine Container ...so everyone probably has inventory on hand
again.
Bruce, numerous times in the archives it is mentioned to drill the axles and
either fill the wheel with grease, or make a tube the contains the grease to
the axle/bearing areas only. I have found it's not worth the extra work to
contain.... for the cost of an extra cartridge of grease. By the time you
need to change a tire the grease in the outer wheel halves is pretty hard
and comes out easily anyhow, yet still lets you grease the bearings and ooze
the watery crud out the gap left in one bearing retainer/seal for this
purpose.
Howard's original Chrome Plate bearings didn't make it through even one
season that saw very few tera firma landings.... before the centrifuge
(wheel) full of water had washed his hand packed bearings clean and the
chrome had chipped and jammed his bearings. After drilling the axle for a
grease journal and keeping the wheel filled with grease (if wheel is filled,
water can't enter the filled space in any quantity and especially can't
carry dirt into the bearings) Howard is heading for the lake for the six
season without even pulling his wheels apart yet. It's a "Fly'm till they
fail" attitude... as the labour isn't worth it to remove them and clean them
until the bearings actually give a tell tail sound that they are toast!
Chrome plate Bearings... last time I purchased were $100 per set of bearing
and cone = $400cdn for the 4 sets you need. Probably able to get them
cheaper from a larger supplier than the chicken %*&$ guy we had in town
(that has since closed up).
Cheers,
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: <Legeorgen@aol.com>
To: <murphy-rebel@dcsol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: 1800 Amphibs
aI live in Spokane, WA and I just went to the local tire store and ordered
tospare Chin Chan nose tire, main tire, both tubes and had them in 3 days.
Wayne, what is the "full wheel of grease policy"? I haven't done anything
Shouldthe wheel bearings grease wise since I started flying 40 hours so far.
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*I be greasing stuff?
Bruce
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