Rear bearing

[Alan Schiaffino]

Usually you can spot a bad bearing if it makes a sound like metal slightly
rubbing. Sometimes you can even hear them when the engine is on idle. If
you are loosing glow plugs way to often it could be that your bearing is
beginning to come apart. On Friday, I started my engine and then stopped;
I could not flip it over. One small piece of the retainer was missing.


--alan

On Sat, 22 May 2004, Lem and Christina Stevens wrote:

> I am interested to learn what the symptoms are for a bad rear bearing.  I
> have an old engine that I am cleaning up.  It was run on castor oil and then
> sat since mid 1990s.  I have it running after much work, (I hate castor oil)
> but I wonder if the bearing is any good.
>
> Thanks,  Lem
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> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:12 PM
> Subject: YS-60
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> > Well looks like I won't be able to make to Temple. Just lost a bearing on
> > my engine while practicing for tomorrow. Does anybody have any experience
> > with this engine? Seems I go thru bearings pretty quick (~60 flights).
> > I've used Omega, CoolPower, PowerMaster 20/20, and always run the engine
> > on the rich side.
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