*MAXXD* Clare's Rieger F40 Escort Cabriolet "BigCab"

[Alanman]

Yesterday we had another ride in a recovery truck, well 2 actually. woop woop. On the way to the pod yet another bearing bit the dust. If it wasnt so funny we could get quite upset. lol



Okay, it's not expensive, a bearing is only £12 and only an hours work, but it's soooooo frustrating, and annoying. When its working and running I think it's the best car in the world, but when its sat at the side of the motorway waiting for the recovery truck I could quite easily see it burn where it sits.

We've got to a point where we're we dont know what to do now. Is is the wheels? Is it the bearing I'm buying? Is it me fitting them? So I called Nez at T.A.S for a bit of telephone councelling. Following a manly conversation about torque setting and temeratures of grease, it does look like I'm dogging them up too tight. Nez say the rears are suprisingly only finger tight, so they're are definately too tight. oops! The fronts [i]are[i/] tighter but maybe not as tight as I've been doing them. Neil advised bearing will, by design, get warm and expand, but how tight I do them there's no room to allow for this nateral expansion and they are simply getting too hot and burning themselves out. This will happen more on long runs and that seems to be when they give up so it all adds up.

This conversation will Nez and now knowing it could be ME at fault has weirdly made me feel better. I'm a dick but I do feel better about it. Its only took me 10 years to work this out. lol.

So new bearing to replace the latest casualty and a check on all the others is on the card for this week.

Hopefully we've sorted it out finally.