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Old 09-07-2010, 11:30 PM
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My trailers have them but None are installed in my truck.
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Old 09-09-2010, 06:40 AM
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If your going to use your truck like a truck,leave the bearings at the hobby shop. I plow a lot of snow w/my trucks,& learned early the bearings are a waist of money.Unless you plan on oiling the bearings every time the truck gets used for real. Have one truck that I use to keep my sidewalks clear with.At the end of last season,the truck sat for two weeks.Went to use it & it would hardly move because the bearings in axles rusted up.
I'm now a bushing guy!
Also be careful useing bearings under shift hubs in trany. They can wreck main shaft,from sliding on shaft. There made to spin,not slide on shaft.
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Old 09-09-2010, 07:07 AM
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DO NOT USE BALL BEARINGS IN THE SHIFT HUBS they are not designed to slide . the id tolerance is tighter then the bushings and can cause shift problems .

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Old 09-09-2010, 07:52 AM
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WOW!! I must really be in the minority. I use bearings everywhere there is a bushing. Did lots of R/C car racing and it was a must then so I just kept on using bearings. I raced on dirt, asphalt, cement and on carpet. No comparison between cars with bearing and one with bushings. Bearings always ruled. Only drawback to bearings in the trucks and in the tanks, is you have to get bearings that have plastic compatable grease in them or you will destroy the wheels on a truck or the roadwheels on a tank.
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