Bogie Wheel rebuild, beware!!

[kevin powles]

Marc, My experience with wheels has me using the canadian set up when refurbishing wheels, so much simpler, they use the off the shelf 6408 cage bearing, with a shim each end, end cover both ends, sealing ring and spacer both ends.

What you have with a british wheel is a much better quality in its day brass ball bearing, you will soon know a british wheel when all the bearings fall out on dis-assembly, scrap value on brass is high at the moment. I have found like yourself different styles of sealing on british wheels and a have a mortar ammo box full of them, if you picture what you need from a british wheel i can bring it to Beltring.

kevin.

[Marc van Aalderen]

Michael,
Thank you for posting the images. I just now discovered I had saved the scans as .tif files which MLU will not accept.

My Carrier although Canadian made has only British TL wheels. Probably the previous owner got the wreck without wheels and could only get easier to obtain, at least over here, British wheels. This makes no difference as the cast wheels are both the same. The only thing different is the setup of the seals and end plates.

Kevin,
British wheels will also accept the cheaper 6408 bearings as they are the same size as the angle contact bearings. The previous owner had only British setup wheels and could not fit them in the forks. That must have been the reason he modified the inboard endplates. He probably wasn't to worried about not having any seals in them. As I have no original Canadian end plates but plenty of the British type I will install these and remove the flange on all spindle bushings in the forks. I think the British setup seals better against water and dirt anyway. Thank you for the offer of parts. Should I be short on anything I will get back to you.

Cheers,

[kevin powles]

Marc, Yes no difference between canadian and british cast wheels, these parts will always be here should you need them.

kev.