Wheel bearing trouble!

[Trackslag172]

Evening all,

Does anywhere sell uprated wheel bearings?

I keep busting them on my 172 track car. It does have a hard suspencion set up and it takes a LOT of abuse.

The latest set of bearings have lasted about 1000 very hard miles.

Any ideas on how to stop it happening?

Cheers

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Fronts or rears..?

 

[Scrooge]

What's your spacer/wheels set up too?

Are they genuine bearings too?

Might be worth replacing the front hubs as a whole if you've had a few bearings pushed through them.

 

[Jekyll]

If it's rears, are you buying else cheapios or genuine renault ones.

 

[Trackslag172]

It's front and rear i'm breaking.

No spacers on rear (hub shims instead)
25mm on front which i know will increase the load on the bearing, but i didn't think that much!

All bearings were genuine

I've got a couple of spare hubs from a doner car, i'll fit them tomorrow and hopefully that will reduce the problem.

Do the hubs wear and cause bearings to fail early then?

Cheers everyone

 

[JamesBryan]

Torquing hub nuts correctly I take it?

175nm rear, 280nm front.

 

[Mr Plums]

As above the wrong torque setting can cause them to fail.

 

[Trackslag172]

I'll check that tomorrow then, maybe I fucked up!
I do have a torque wrench, but I can't remember what I set it to when I change them.

Cheers for the figures!