Sealed Or Shielded Bearings?

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Wesley Tucker
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Sealed Or Shielded Bearings?

Post by Wesley Tucker » Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:11 pm

So what are you doing?

• Sealed and riding til they give up and get new.
• Shielded and doing a maintenance and lubrication routine.

Do you have the tools for working on shielded bearings? (The little gizmos for removing the retaining ring.)
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Chad Hegerty
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Re: Sealed Or Shielded Bearings?

Post by Chad Hegerty » Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:28 am

I have been going shielded and servicing them for the last few years. No special tools other than a pin to pull the shields off of. Some of the race bearings I run without the shields internally since they are serviced between races.

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Re: Sealed Or Shielded Bearings?

Post by Robert Gaisek » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:37 am

Shielded.......last forever if you take good care of them.
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