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Location: Murray Bridge, South Australia | Have restored the desoto steering wheel, shaft,outer casing and found the shaft bearing is kaput! Apparently the bearing being 22mm ID x 44 mm OD x 9 mm thick is a special made for mopar. I have searched every where to no avail, it is a very unusual bearing with only 6 ball bearings in it. The only alternative is a 60 x 22 - 2rs that is 22 mm ID x 44 mm OD x 12 mm thick, a sealed bearing that is 3 mm thicker do you guys think it will work in to the system? |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | what yr desoto . i might be able to find alternative cross in an old catalog ---------------------------------------later
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Location: Murray Bridge, South Australia | Hi 60 dart, I have been able to get the current bearing number these are hard to get its BB13600-22, I am currently waiting on 3 suppliers to get back to me. Thanks Bob |
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Location: Finland | Have you considered fabricating a bushing from a low friction super tough polymer like POM ? I think that would work as well ,outer surface tight to the tube and inner surface with a little
clearance on the shaft. It would last forever. |
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Location: So. Cal | You could also consider getting a used one from BigM. |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | might help if we got the year of this desoto . my crash book doesn't give the numbers BB13600-22 for
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Location: Murray Bridge, South Australia | Sorry guys its a 58 sportsman |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | https://www.ebay.com/itm/194208397606?hash=item2d37b8f926:g:JQIAAOSw... |
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | https://www.tradebearings.com/bb1-3600-deep-groove-ball-bearing-22x4... |
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Location: Murray Bridge, South Australia | Wow! thanks for that info 60 dart & mstrug now I can finish the column |
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Location: northern germany | 582drht - 2021-09-03 6:04 PM
Wow! thanks for that info 60 dart & mstrug now I can finish the column
IIRC (could be wrong) the race or something in the bearing is nylon to prevent ground, so a regular bearing does not work. I rejected the idea first, but what Ralf posted should work and last forever for that application.
I installed leaf spring main and shackle PU bushings 150+K miles ago and they are still like new. The inner sleeves or the shackle bolts must have moved under load a billion times, rubbing the PU. Unbelievable.
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Location: Murray Bridge, South Australia | I checked the bearing that has now fallen apart and there is no visable nylon there. I drove it home from Broken Hill when I bought it a couple years ago and everything worked fine. Thanks Guys |
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Location: Murray Bridge, South Australia | Sorry to all its a 58 firedome |
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