johnny chimpo
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| posted on 15/3/13 at 06:09 PM |
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Lower Wishbone Rose Joint
Hi guys, can anyone recommend where i can get replacement rose joints for my lower front wishbones? Im giving my MNR a bit of a spruce up and want to
get new joints after the wishbones are powdercoated.
The rose joints i need are the same as in the pic...
[Edited on 15/3/13 by johnny chimpo]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 15/3/13 at 06:22 PM |
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Look for "Spherical Bearing" rather than Rose joint first take it out and measure it and buy the best quality you can find ---
suppliers are the usual suspects I would try McGill Motorsport first but I'm a cheap skate.
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nick205
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| posted on 15/3/13 at 06:22 PM |
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MNR?
Or http://www.brammer.co.uk/ who have branches in most towns.
Brammer will be one of the cheapest and where a lot of other suppliers will be sourcing from.
[Edited on 15/3/13 by nick205]
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ashg
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| posted on 15/3/13 at 07:18 PM |
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caterham sell them. not sure if they will fit and they are a bit pricey
http://www.caterhamparts.co.uk/product.php?id_product=110
Anything With Tits or Wheels Will cost you MONEY!!
Haynes Roadster (Finished)
Exocet (Finished & Sold)
New Project (Started)
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johnny chimpo
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| posted on 15/3/13 at 07:25 PM |
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Cheers guys, I've just got a load of stuff from mcgills so will give them a try in the morning..... Failing that I will try Brammer. I've
had a look and they have a branch in Paisley so it's not far away.
I've emailed Chris at MNR, but was just checking for any other obvious places.
Thanks for al the help!
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johnny chimpo
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| posted on 16/3/13 at 01:07 PM |
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How do you measure the size of the spherical bearing, is it the hole diameter?
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johnny chimpo
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| posted on 16/3/13 at 03:14 PM |
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Ignore my previous post.... Now sorted!
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Krismc
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| posted on 17/3/13 at 11:30 AM |
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Try Force Seven Bearings.....nothing to do with cars or Sevens but do every bearing and belt ive ever needed for work.
Kris
Built, Ivaed, Drove and now Sold - 2011 MNR VORTX RT+ 2000cc Zetec on R1 Throttle boddies.
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johnny chimpo
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| posted on 17/3/13 at 11:51 AM |
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Cheers Kris, hopefully sorted now, ive ordered them from Mcgills, just hope they are the right size!
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johnny chimpo
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| posted on 17/3/13 at 01:13 PM |
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Does anyone know how easy it should be to remove the camber adjusters from the front upper wishbones, are they threaded in to the wishbone?
Ive removed the rose joint but the camber adjuster seems to be really tight in. Im wary about trying to knock them out as they Re made of aluminium
and i dont know how well they would stand up to it.
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Davey D
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| posted on 17/3/13 at 09:03 PM |
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I've just replaced all the rose joints, and spherical bearings on my MNR. I fitted boots over the Rosejoints too to help protect them. The
spherical bearing in the lower front wishbone was a metric m16 spherical bearing, which seemed strange to use, as everything else is imperial, and you
can get a very similar bearing that has a slightly smaller outer diameter (32mm vs 38mm of the metric M16), but is much easier to get hold of.
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johnny chimpo
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| posted on 17/3/13 at 09:28 PM |
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Cheers for the help Davey, I had thought about fitting boots over the rose joints but have already spent a fair bit on rosé joints, bushes, nuts bolts
and powder coating next..... Why I never thought to do all this over the winter months when I wasn't getting ready to put the car back on the
road, I will never know.....!
Looks like I've possibly ordered the wrong spherical bearings then :-(
I ordered these from mcgill's.....
Click click
Where did you get yours fom?
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Davey D
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| posted on 17/3/13 at 11:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by johnny chimpo
Cheers for the help Davey, I had thought about fitting boots over the rose joints but have already spent a fair bit on rosé joints, bushes, nuts bolts
and powder coating next..... Why I never thought to do all this over the winter months when I wasn't getting ready to put the car back on the
road, I will never know.....!
Looks like I've possibly ordered the wrong spherical bearings then :-(
I ordered these from mcgill's.....
Click click
Where did you get yours fom?
I was scratching my head for awhile over that bearing. I took it out to me measure it, presuming that it would be that bearing from McGill, but it was
measuring at 1.5"/38mm where as the one at McGill's measures 36.5125 mm. All other measurements were the same. After doing some Google
searching I found the m16, but nowhere advertising them for sale online in the UK.
This page shows the dimensions:
http://cad.aurorabearing.com/item/products-commercial-spherical-bearing-metric-units/s-spherical-bearings-metric-ptfe-liners-available-/com-m16?
/>
Compare it to the spec of the one on McGill, and its very close.
We purchase a lot of bearings at work, so I took it down to one of our suppliers to show them. It was a special order, but arrived in a few days.
I'm sure we used DRP bearings in Grimsby
[Edited on 17/3/13 by Davey D]
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