I've been spending quite a bit of time making adapters to put the entire Buick hub, drum and all onto Ford spindles. I have the 59 Buick setup with the ball type bearings, and I got some sticker shock today when I found out a complete set of these bearings costs almost $300 (already had my adapters made to the ball bearing size before I found out they were so pricey). Does anybody know if the Timkens are the same size? Sure would be cheaper to convert to the Timkens. I can make new adapters if I have to, I guess, but it would be great to put the Timkens on without spending 3 or 4 more days at the lathe, lol.
Timken catalog shows this for Buick front wheel: [FONT=Arial,Bold][FONT=Arial,Bold]1960-1958[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Arial,Bold] [/FONT]Seal (inner) ...........................................................6950N[2] Bearing (inner) ..........................................................B66[2] Bearing (outer) ......................................................... B73[2] Here is a link to their catalog, see page 44 of 582 in PDF file (page 34 of printed file): http://www.timken.com/EN-US/product...aring_Seal_Application_Catalog_1989_older.pdf
The specs for B66 and B73 are on page 446 of 493 of this link: http://www.timken.com/EN-US/products/Documents/BearingSpecGuide7534.pdf You can find all Timken catalogs here: http://www.timken.com/en-us/products/Pages/Catalogs.aspx
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