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chefwong


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10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Original Message   Dec 6, 2010 8:14 pm
Curiosity got the best of me tonight. Granted these don't see a heavy duty cycle, I was curious how much or how little grease was in my 10+ year old sealed bearing...

Just a quick pic for those just as curious...

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trouts2




Location: Marlboro MA
Joined: Dec 8, 2007
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Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #1   Dec 6, 2010 8:32 pm
Can you repost a reasonable size picture so it does not blow out the formatting?
aa335


Joined: Nov 29, 2008
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Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #2   Dec 6, 2010 10:36 pm
Looks brand new.
bus708


Location: Maryland
Joined: Jul 24, 2010
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Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #3   Dec 6, 2010 11:06 pm
Ware was this bearing? It does not look sealed to me, I do not see any contaminants eather
mml4


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Deep snow is better!


Joined: Dec 31, 2003
Points: 544

Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #4   Dec 7, 2010 8:16 am
Looks like he removed the sheild. I don't think that is a sealed bearing but rather a sheilded bearing. The sheild is somewhat like a dust cover. When you order bearings from Boca Bearing in Florida they will remove the sheild and flush all the lube and send them to you dry with the sheilds re:installed. The guys who compete in distance casting fishing rod competition want the bearings this way. The grease slows the reels down.

Marc 

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chefwong


Joined: Dec 18, 2004
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Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #5   Dec 7, 2010 10:10 am
Yes, it was removed to peek underneath...

Too much grease can be a bad thing...
aa335


Joined: Nov 29, 2008
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Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #6   Dec 7, 2010 10:29 am
Chefwong,

Are you going to repack the bearings with some other grease? 

I think there might be ABEC 7 bearings in that size.  :)

How's the shed coming?  Seen any snow yet to try out the 621 or 724?
chefwong


Joined: Dec 18, 2004
Points: 175

Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #7   Dec 7, 2010 1:04 pm
No bearing swaps for me. In my theme of R&R, I'm keeping all things OEM....including the original made in japan bearings....

After really getting into this and gutting, I can see how things fit and the whole GX200 swap does not really look like a doable modification due to sizing of things and in keeping with all things OEM...

The shed is done, I left her unfinished. This leaves me with a whole couple of months to spend more time finding the perfect finish versus me just settling....so come springtime, clean, sand and then 2 coats of TBD ?

No snow yet, and I've yet to put the 621 back together. Still waiting on my parts order and besides, I'm on my 3rd coat that I just wetsanded. So another day for the solvents to evaporate, lay one more coat of paint and SHHHHHH, wait till it's real late and she's asleep so I can put the parts in the oven to bake them.....
aa335


Joined: Nov 29, 2008
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Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #8   Dec 7, 2010 1:11 pm
chefwong wrote:
No bearing swaps for me. In my theme of R&R, I'm keeping all things OEM....including the original made in japan bearings....

After really getting into this and gutting, I can see how things fit and the whole GX200 swap does not really look like a doable modification due to sizing of things and in keeping with all things OEM...

The shed is done, I left her unfinished. This leaves me with a whole couple of months to spend more time finding the perfect finish versus me just settling....so come springtime, clean, sand and then 2 coats of TBD ?

No snow yet, and I've yet to put the 621 back together. Still waiting on my parts order and besides, I'm on my 3rd coat that I just wetsanded. So another day for the solvents to evaporate, lay one more coat of paint and SHHHHHH, wait till it's real late and she's asleep so I can put the parts in the oven to bake them.....

The GX200 doesn't fit?  Its the same engine block and mounting points as a GX160, only the piston stroke is lengthened.  Are you talking about a GX200 clone?  Anyways, you can always do other mods to boost power, check out the karting forum.  :)

Baking paint?  Are u powder coating?
chefwong


Joined: Dec 18, 2004
Points: 175

Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #9   Dec 7, 2010 1:25 pm
Actually the tank, etc is a different animal and the top cover would look out of place or I would have to do a serious mod to it - to make things look OEM, and that is time I just don't have right now...

Actually on the baking, no powdercoating. But baking so that the solvents in the paint fully cures to a point where I like it before I start to put things back together.
aa335


Joined: Nov 29, 2008
Points: 2434

Re: 10+ Year Old Sealed Bearings ....
Reply #10   Dec 7, 2010 4:39 pm
Yeah, the GX200 metal tank won't fit.  You'll have to hook a hose to the stock molded plastic tank on the snowblower, and reuse the GX160 muffler.
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