Wheel Bearings

[DeadLastRacing]

Should I spend the money and make the DLR switch?

http://www.bossbearing.com/dlr.asp

 

[bomber315]

they are only $20? Id say yes... im pretty sure i paid more than that for my All balls ones!

 

[DeadLastRacing]

Nope....$60 for the complete front set

 

[1998yamahawarrior]

ive been thinking about switchen to them also

 

[91warrior]

yea i thought about getting them too. i already have grease zerks in my front hubs so i could easily keep them greased real good.

 

[yamarider]

The stock front wheel bearings seemed pretty robust to me. I put them through the nastiest stuff you could do to them, with offset wheels and aftermarket a-arms, rocky terrain, 3 feet of gritty water and mud on a regular basis, and I think they were pretty much the only moving part aside from the engine components that I didn't wear out and have to replace. Literally, I broke or wore out the a-arm pivots, ball joints, several sets of tie rod ends, axle bearings 3 times, swingarm bearings twice, shock bushings front and rear, steering stem bearing and upper bushing, **** even the pivots on the levers and thumb throttle and the shifter were ravaged beyond use. Yet the stock front wheel bearings survived all this, only being greased one time when I took the spindles off to ream them out. Weird, huh?

The regular ball rollers are a little easier to maintain, I always hated dealing with the tapered ones on my truck because I just don't know how you're supposed to accurately tighten the spindles so they aren't loose or over tightened. It doesn't make a difference one way or the other with regular ball bearings as long as they are tight enough to stay on the spindles.

 

[bomber315]

Nope....$60 for the complete front set

now im confused? the only price i see on there for a warrior is for a 87 and it says 20 for front and 20 for rear... im sure your right with the $60 but where did you see that?

 

[DeadLastRacing]

Nope....$60 for the complete front set

now im confused? the only price i see on there for a warrior is for a 87 and it says 20 for front and 20 for rear... im sure your right with the $60 but where did you see that?

I'm referring to the DLR conversion kit. And only because I've already went through a set of regular bearings and it really hasn't been that long, so I'm thinking about upgrading mainly because of the last 5x's longer claim. My bad bearings I'm running now I think are the cause of my lose ass front end.

 

[dswwarrior350]

pull the wheels off and grease them once in a great while and even the cheap ebay bearings will last for as long as these.

 

[dswwarrior350]

I think i paid 12 bucks at the stealer for front wheels bearings for both sides.... i can buy 5 sets of them to one set of these... and honestly like stated above they last a long ass time... ive put in 1 set in 9 years