Stainless Steel Bearings

[Rcmaster199 at aol.com]

How are you guys keeping the grease in the bearings? The one time I used a 
bearing packed in grease in an engine, the grease washed out on the first or 
second flight and fouled my plug. So many have reported using greased up 
bearings, you have me almost believing it was just my bad luck.

MattK


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Verne Koester 
> To: discussion at nsrca.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:53 PM
> Subject: Re: Stainless Steel Bearings
> 
> 
> The stock O.S. 1.4 EFI bearing is stainless and shielded, the one for the RX 
> is not. My original bearing (non-shielded) was shot within 5 gallons and a 
> friend of mine only got 3 gallons on his. I put in the EFI shielded bearing 
> with the shields left in and it's still going strong and smooth after 20 
> gallons. The EFI bearing is a drop-in replacement for the RX since they both use 
> the same crankcase. I've since bought a second RX and replaced the original 
> bearing with the EFI bearing before I even started it up for the first time. 
> BTW, all bearings are not created equal. I'd recommend the O.S. packaged version 
> as it's an NTN high quality bearing packed with hi-temp grease that'll stand 
> up to the temps we operate at.
>  
> Verne
> 

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