Hello all,
I have a friend that is updating his 54 Hudson to a mustang II front end and we are at the point where bearings are in question. Knowing lil about LS stuff Im not finding much info on what ball bearing setups are being used at the hubs. I hope to make it to next months runs to see for myself or if Im chasing my tail but till then Im hoping someone might set me strait.
Bob
Can't help for a specific application. If you go to
www.timken.com you can get at their online catalogs and engineering manuals. Everything you could never imagine about bearings and seals.
We ended up going with super-precision Fafner, 4 per hub in tandem pairs. Larger diameter would have given us the higher load to use only two bearings, but the smaller diameter was dictated by the RPM. In general, for greased bearings tapered rollers are only good to 200,000 to 250,000 d*n (bearing mid diameter times rpm). Anything higher needs caged ball. Our application topped out at ~800,000, which required a higher precision version made for high speed machine tools. What we replaced would have exploded at 700 to 750 mph. Remember Art Arfons bearing failure? This was one killer we eliminated.