Bringing out the dead Options

[Jeff Hail]

Ready to go. Races installed. Bearings packed. Installed on the strut assembly. I also replaced the often neglected hidden O-ring behind the bearing spacer.

I glass beaded the hubs to clean them up. I also sprayed a light coat of 600 degree engine clearcoat to keep them from oxidizing. Baked at 200 and 400 with 30 minute cool down cycles in between.

I thought these were clear anodized originally. I was wrong.. some sort of clear crud was applied from the factory. It came off to easy for it to be anodizing.

[Maltese Falcon]

Jeff,
Good tip on the front hubs...definitely will have these looked at by Mr. Alarcon my suspension guru.
Keep up the xlnt painstaking work !
Marty

[Jeff Hail]

The art of restoration.

The only parts that are new are the spreaders and spring retainer cones. Everything else including the shoes were glass beaded and finished. The brass star adjusters were glass beaded and then polished.

From rusty to perfect.

[Jeff Hail]

I deviated from one thing on Foleys 911 e-brake mod. I cut the return spring in half behind the spreader (since only one spreader is used) and placed a washer where the cable passes through to provide a little extra push on the shoe retract.

[Jeff Hail]

In process

[Jeff Hail]

I was called last night by my friend Victor Van Tres. (Showroom Stock Champion)

With a chuckle in his voice and a sense of urgency I was invited to drive in the 24 Hour Race of Endurance in Sonoma next weekend. Yes another 24 Hours of LeMons.

I respond with a return laugh of sarcasm what kind of Grand Touring Prototype knowing he only races Renaults and Peugeots?

Out comes its for TEAM PEUGEOT DADDY and the car is a 404. My brain starts firing and I'm thinking wow a 404 has four wheel drum brakes and maybe 60 hp this can get interesting and would be fun?

In the end I had to turn down the seat stint due to other plans.

A pic from the old team at Thunderhill. I'm still wondering how Victor obtained this fine stead?

[Jeff Hail]

Pre-fit the motor mount and burn it in.

[Jeff Hail]

24 Hours of LeMons/ Sonoma California

The Peugeot Daddy Team 404 actually finished the race out of shear pride. Even with an overheat condition and late hour multiple rod knocks, the Pit crew quickly went to work in the pits with pepper to quell the overheat, changed to 50 weight oil increasing film thickness extending the inevitable destruction of lower end. The tired 404 made it across the finish line after 24 hours. At the 23rd hour the lowly 404 abandoned its moniker French white flag to accomplish the impossible. The tired and weary drivers gave it there all to avoid the dreaded DNF.

[Jeff Hail]

Completion of strut #2

Installing inner bearing race

[Jeff Hail]

Installing outer race and pressure packing bearings.

[Jeff Hail]

Installing the seal then hub on the spindle.

Grease caps glass beaded and epoxy coated.

Poly Graphite bushings installed on the upper mounts.

[0396]

Congrats and keep up the fantastic work. Enjoy a blessed holiday. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

[mrbubblehead]

Jeff,
what are you using for wheel bearing grease? It looks like swepco cv grease.

[Jeff Hail]

Jeff,
what are you using for wheel bearing grease? It looks like swepco cv grease.

Short answer -

I've used Mobil 1, Valvoline 985 or 986 and Swepco 101. Will always use Moly based. I've never had a wheel bearing failure ever. Between those 4 I cannot tell the difference which is better. I like the Valvoline because it will flow but not sling.

I won't use blue based name brands from what I learned from motorcycle racing.

NEO, Redline and Krytox are great stuff but at 3x the price I have not seen bearings last any longer.

Swepco claims 500 degrees on the high end. If tapered roller bearings are seeing temps approaching 200 degrees a different problem is present that has nothing to do with grease unless its dry. That's too hot and usually way to tight.

I always pressure pack the bearings and fill the hub cavity 25% with grease. Any more and you can get grease purge. The inner seal is a good design from Porsche and the o-ring behind the bearing spacer stops everything else.

Lots of opinions on w/b grease. Choose your poison.

First key is properly seating the races, good lubrication and next setting the bearing load.

Merry Christmas

[Jeff Hail]

Quaker came out with a white paper on grease formulation from data taken from Indy car racing a few years back.

Its really interesting when it gets down to drag caused by grease and power losses. Obviously its biased on Quakers product line but the data is pretty accurate from what I have seen compared to other petroleum suppliers.

http://www.quakerchem.com/wp-content/uploa..._whitepaper.pdf

[CptTripps]

I do love this thread...

[TJB/914]

Quaker came out with a white paper on grease formulation from data taken from Indy car racing a few years back.

Its really interesting when it gets down to drag caused by grease and power losses. Obviously its biased on Quakers product line but the data is pretty accurate from what I have seen compared to other petroleum suppliers.

http://www.quakerchem.com/wp-content/uploa..._whitepaper.pdf

Jeff,
I love this thread, you are one smart/interesting/talented guy. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)
Tom

[Jeff Hail]

Post assembly fact checking aka anal retentive quality control.

Checking runout after assembly. Spot on right and left. I lost sleep last night. Woke up and thought I gotta double check these after I put them together.

[Jeff Hail]

Way back Machine

Have to weld up those trick rear backing plates. For some reason on 914's they are prone to fatigue cracks. This stuff is really thin. I measured it at 25 gauge at the thinnest area. My Miller 180 was turned down to under 1. About as low as it would go.

I'm not even going to use these on my car with the 911 rear parking brake mod.
Maybe someone here will end up with them? You never know? I might throw them in with the lot of parts going to the powder coater and then offer them up.

[Jeff Hail]

As the lyrics from the Scorpions go: "The bitch is hungry she needs to tell...So give her inches and feed her well"

This whore has an enormous hole!