Rear Wheel bearings - what type?

krabysniper said

...Timkens are THE BEST for any kinda road course, slalom, drifter, skid pad fanatic, or just plain old HARD core corner burner out in the real world (like myself). If all you do is putt on down to the ice cream parlor for a cone with your sweety on sunday, then greens are fine, if you want to go out and see what kinda g's you can pull around your favorite slalom course or what not, put the tapered Timkens back in there. Just my .02.

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I am so glad someone else is making this statement rather then me, since I work at Timken naturally one will think I am bias. Anyhow, cars back then with their big hp & torque required the usage of taper roller bearings, because TRB can handle far more load then ball bearings can. Ball bearing however is the standard today on 90%+ of all passenger cars, while high performance machines and trucks continue to use TRB for their drive train application. Of couse if it is TRB then you got to go with Timken :toothy7: