front wheel bearings in too far? gs550

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Here's and interesting method of front wheel bearing removal found on BikeCliff's Website. Maybe it will help. Good Luck.

http://gsarchive.bwringer.com/storagecliff1/images/front_wheel_bearing_removal.pdf

[Grimly]

Koyo, Skf, f a g, rhp, Ina, timken and some others are classed as high quality there are others, all balls are not one, likely bought in in bulk from Far East at a price.
i worked in maintenance engineering all my working life I am familiar with bearing choice. We had a purchasing dept and on one job they purchased some bearings from Poland (cheaply) the job was on a high speed machine two of us spent 6 hours fitting them tested the kit it ran for around 15 seconds and siezed up compleatly, bearings disintegrated.
unfortunalty being in uk I cannot tell you where to shop in the USA but do a search for bearing suppliers or engineering factors.

Yep; Koyo every time for me. I won't even trust RHP since I worked in the ball plant that supplied them with deliberately-specified crappy tolerance balls for use in the automotive industry. About that time, Renault gearboxes were notorious for bearing failures. I wonder if there's any connection.
In contrast, our contract with Koyo was tight; ultra-bloody-tight for acceptance tolerance. We had to go through some hoops to get the business and they were bleedin' careful about QC (as were we). I can honestly say, that even though we produced properly-specced and nicely-made balls for SKF and the others, the Koyo balls were the best.
One thing I've noticed anyway; Koyo bearings at the retail counter are so relatively cheap it's just not worthwhile fitting anything else. I'm not interested in saving a couple of bucks if at some point I'll be stuck on the side of the road with a collapsed wheel bearing.
All-Balls and all the others sell crap. That's just my opinion, but I'm utterly confident of it.

[Nessism]

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[Grimly]

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