[V8] fan clutch bearing (V8 Steam engine)

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Mark,

Great work. Glad you found the source. Guess I've been lucky enough (so far)
wrt this bearing -- but am very familiar with bad bearings in general.

Good luck.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:00 PM, <gbmarc at cox.net> wrote:

> I finally got the fan off yesterday and removed what is called, the Fan
> Shaft or the Fan Clutch bracket.  Basically it's the bearing that the fan
> attaches to.  It was in very bad shape.  Both covers of the bearing had
> disintegrated and the dry steel balls were grinding around against each
> other.  Now for the potentially helpful discovery:
> This small part 711 121 211   is $400! After searching for quite a while I
> found Koperformance who had it for around $330, but still a ridiculous
> amount of money.  However, this bracket consists of the bearing+bearing
> housing which is bolted into a second similar plate. The two can easily be
> separated by unscrewing a large central bolt, then the bearing is just
> pulled off. Apparently this (half of 711 121 211) bearing part is the same
> as VW part  077 115 136A.  This part is only $90 from ECSTuning.
> I ordered the part and will report back how it all works out.
>
> Mark.
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