[Vwdiesel] Limping Home: Front Wheel Bearings

[LBaird119@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/13/2005 11:34:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
h_hagar at prcn.org writes:

> Rear legs are Timpken ---on Rabbits.---Why ? NOT the front ?---
> stupid.
> 

  I always thought Timken was simply a brand name of bearings like F.A.G.?
Can't preload a roller bearing the way the double ball bearings on the front 
are 
since the preload is on the inner race rather than the bearings themselves.  
If you can't preload it then your axle just might come loose.  It's a splined 

drive axle rather than a spindle as the rear has.  It NEEDS heavy tension 
or it'll wobble and get sloppy.  
  BTW, Porsche 911's use the exact same front Rabbit bearing for their 
rear wheels.    :-)
      Loren