Bearings collapsing. After market alternative??

[Mrowlboy88]

Wheel bearings keep collapsing after a few testing sessions. Any suggestions on an upgrade?? Can you transfer Megane hubs and bearings or a specially made bearing which is better suited to performance??

Cheers

 

[warwickstingray]

I was under the impression that the cup packed 182's had the biggest bearings of the MK2's.
Try searching for Cup racer bearings/hubs.
Turns up a few bits regarding laguna 2.2D hubs.
Think Cup racers had beefier rear bearings as well but I could be talking out my arse.

 

[mark123]

That's not a problem I've heard of before, on the front.
Cup racers used Laguna hubs.
Are you sure they're getting fitted and torqued up correctly?
Can happen on the rears if they're missing the spacer at the back.

 

[MicKPM]

Something defy not right here. As above, more likely to be an incorrect assembly or torque value causing this. Assuming you're using decent bearing units to rather than some £13 Chinese special?

 

[warwickstingray]

I was surprised to read this to.

 

[George@RTR_Parts]

As Mark and Mick have said, the OE fit bearings are very good quality so either not fitted/torqued correctly or cheap bearings

 

[Mrowlboy88]

Sorry gents my mistake.

Rear bearings on clio keep going. Is there an after market hub and disc that's seperate to the standard that is fitted with the inbuilt bearing?? Seem to have to change it quite regularly as they keep breaking due to the obvious load the rear end is put through when cornering. Any suggestions? Thanks for taking note of the thread.

 

[MicKPM]

Ah, right then, that is a different set of possibles all together then. Firstly, are you sure the rear hub spacer is correctly installed on each rear disc assembly? Secondly, are you using genuine Renault disc assemblies?

Mick

 

[Mrowlboy88]

Yes and yes

 

[Mrowlboy88]

They last 3/4 test days then go again. Wasn't sure if there was a different way of setting it up??

 

[Tony Hunter]

I take it you are on about front ones, you didn't say that on your pm.
Never had any trouble with fronts since the car was built, 5 yrs now.
Red ones aren't cheap, but there you go.

 

[EZ Tutty]

What torque setting are you tightening the center nut to?

Should be 175Nm for the rears IIRC

 

[bozothenutter]

I take it you are on about front ones, you didn't say that on your pm.
Never had any trouble with fronts since the car was built, 5 yrs now.
Red ones aren't cheap, but there you go.

Red ones?

 

[Tony Hunter]

Red ones?

Was on phone. Ren it should be. Renault!

 

[Tony Hunter]

What torque setting are you tightening the center nut to?

Should be 175Nm for the rears IIRC

280 fronts

 

[MicKPM]

He's on about rears Tony.

The X65 Cups ran standard rear beams so there must be something wrong with your installation or setup.

What camber are you running? Any spacers?

 

[BIGASH]

Swap stubs axles and put new bearing on and will be fine! For some reason I had same problem no matter how many new bearing I kept putting on they kept failing. Swapped stub axles and fine ever since

 

[Tony Hunter]

Don't want to state the obvious, but are the spacers on behind the disc?

Sorry just re read pm, ref rears.

 

[Mrowlboy88]

Swap stubs axles and put new bearing on and will be fine! For some reason I had same problem no matter how many new bearing I kept putting on they kept failing. Swapped stub axles and fine ever since

When you say swap stub axles what type do you swap them for? Do you have a link? And yes it all seems to be together fine with the spacers etc. just seems to be something which continues to fail on us.

 

[Tony Hunter]

For new ones I guess.