79 speedster Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I am looking for new wheel bearings for my 14 Overland. I am told that Timken has deleted these bearings form production. Can anyone guide me to a source for NOS early bearings? Thanks, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFranklin Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 What was the bearing #? That might be a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1939_Buick Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 (edited) Try an industrial bearing supplier. Not a car parts place. If you have the Timken number all the better. If not, walk in with your bearing. Measure the diameters of the shaft with a vernier if possible & take a photo to the supplierGoogle:- NOS bearings, car bearings, wheel bearings, Timken replacement bearing and what ever else you can think off Edited January 20, 2013 by 1939_buick (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restorer32 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 As stated above your local industrial bearing supply house is your friend. We use Kaman Bearing, not sure if they are nationwide or not. Take your original bearing in. Likely they can find something that will work. At worst you might need to have a sleeve machined to adapt the i.d. and/or o.d. to your application. You will be surprised how much less expensve bearings are from a bearing supply house than from an automotive bearing supplier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79 speedster Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Thanks for the response from all. I did go to our industrial supplier which told me that they are out of production. The bearings in question are Timken outer bearing # 236 with cup # 2320 and inner bearing # 236 and cup # 2520.I took the bearings in and they took all of the dimensions and came up with nothing stock fromTtimken except for one of the cups that is listed for $1200. Hoping they are missing something and where mistaken. I don't know if there are suppliers that specialize in old stock sizes so I'm reaching out to everyone for some input or advise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldenguy Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I have had the same problem in the past, so why not take them(hubs) to an automotive machine shop and have them re-done to accept available bearings?--Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79 speedster Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Seldonguy, Thanks for the response That will be my next step. I had been told they where available but seems it would be easy to adapt the hubs to a close match as long spindle taper matches something available. On a different note, you had mentioned to a friend of mine in this forum you had some dealer pictures of the 14 overland speedster. Would you share those with me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937-44 Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Have you tried Olcar Bearing? George does a good job of coming up with things. Phone number is 810-969-2628. Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
79 speedster Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 I will give George a call tomorrow. Thanks Carl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JV Puleo Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Just for the experience I've tried finding these on the internet. A quick search shows they could be found, but the price is astronomical. Re-working the hubs is almost certainly the way to go. I've done this quite a bit with earlier brass cars for which the bearings are almost never available and always found something that could be adapted, albeit often with really creative machine work. If you take the measurements, you can compare them to the current Timkin catalog to see if there is something quite close. An easily replaced bearing is always a better choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seldenguy Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 79 speedster- I will be glad to share a copy of my 1913 Ford/Overland dealer photo. It shows our local dealer displaying a dozen Fords and two Overland speedsters. Please send me your Email address by a private message. --Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WEB 38 Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I Have a couple of cases of nos old bearings I will check out those numbers for you. It will be a few days before I can get to them. Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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