Rear Axel Berring Saver reliablility?

Don't know about the reliability -- but it's axle and bearing.

On the Dana rear end in my car, the shims go on the backside of the carrier bearings -- so if you don't guess right on the shims for each side, to adjust backlash or change the contact pattern you have to pull the carrier back out, use a special puller to pull the carrier bearings off, then press them back on with different shims, then bolt it back in to measure everything again. Not uncommon to have to do that repeatedly...

If you mean the offset axle bearing assemblies that moves the bearing contact area to a different section on the axle....they work fine. It allows the use of axles that have the contact area worn out for quite some time (yrs.), before having to replace them. GL

joel5.0 said:

If you mean the offset axle bearing assemblies...

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My apologies for hijacking this thread
Where can I buy these?

I believe Auto Zone sells them.

PuterAmI said:

My apologies for hijacking this thread
Where can I buy these?

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Any auto part store has them...The part# is VLRP5707 or RP5707 under the Timken brand. BTW, they do work...have installed a few and no comebacks for yrs. One thing to mention though, once you use the offset bearings, and wear takes its toll....time for new axles. GL

joel5.0 said:

The part# is VLRP5707 or RP5707 under the Timken brand.

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Thank you.
Advance and NAPA show them on their website, Autozone does not.

Iv'e used them in my 86 for a couple years before selling the car. They worked fine, no issues.
Now this I dont understand, when we went to look @ my 93 to buy, on the test drive I noticed the bearing roaring in the rear of the car. Odd for the car haveing such low miles. Well I told the seller that their was an issue in the rear, he said nah it's the tires. The tires were the original GDY Eagles and were about 1/2 worn but dryrotted badly. I work in a tire/service store and know tires can make bearing type noises, but that was not tire noise. When I went down to view car I brought a set of new tires with me, guy told me it was gonna need tires to drive back to Charleston. So we installed tires and noise was still there, guy said he would pay for the tires and I can go on my way. For the price the car was still a steal, so I bought it, drove home like that.
sorry to have such a long story, but to finish this rambling on!!!!! Point is we installed bearingsavers here and they have been working fine. My car was sitting for many years before I bought it, guess the axle gear oil dripped off the bearings and allowed them to dry out????? Does that sound logical?????

RUNINAGT said:

My car was sitting for many years before I bought it, guess the axle gear oil dripped off the bearings and allowed them to dry out????? Does that sound logical?????

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Not really,... it's more of a "regular" wear and tear issue, the bearings will "eat up" the axle due to the hardness difference and friction, regardless of lubrication. Anyway...a 19 - 20 yrs. lifespan is not that bad.

joel5.0 said:

Not really,... it's more of a "regular" wear and tear issue, the bearings will "eat up" the axle due to the hardness difference and friction, regardless of lubrication. Anyway...a 19 - 20 yrs. lifespan is not that bad.

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I was concerned about the low miles. My stang only had 16000 miles on it. But I did have to drive it back from Orlando to Charleston, about 400 miles with that roaring noise.