rear wheel bearings?

[LUXY DJ]

right,
my rear wheel has some play in it like i can move it left - right, if you get me

so my bearings are going/gone but how much are they? & is it a easy enough job to do myself?

any help would be great!!!!
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[DynaMight]

Sounds like they're buggered. It's a fairly easy job....depending on how corroded/rusted in they are. I think I paid about £6 a bearing, and you need 2 for the rear (plus one for the sprocket carrier, although I didnt bother) Done the girlfriends in about 30-45mins.

Remove the wheel, remove any kind of dust cap/spacer etc, you'll probably need a long bit of metal pipe/tube so you can knock the bearing through from the other side.
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[LUXY DJ]

K,nice one mate
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[stinkwheel]

Get the bearings from a bearing factors rather than a motorcycle spares shop. They will be both cheaper (often a lot cheaper) and better.

If you don't know what you need, knock the old ones out and take them in with you.

Look under 'bearing factor' in the yellow pages.

[LUXY DJ]

k cheers stinky but you had to throw another spanner in the works didnt ya(no pun intended) but i can understand them being cheaper but why better? whats diff?


& just done a search on yell.com with "bearing factor" & not mcuh making much sense really
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[hmmmnz]

you'll get them off weremoto for cheap as well, some times they can be a right pain in the arse to get out, you have to knock them out from the oppisite side with a peice of pipe or large screw driver, but the spacer in the center of you wheel sometings doesn't move a hell of a lot so trying to find purchase on the inner part of the oppisite bearing can be near impossible, but once you get one out your fine cause you can pullt out the spacer and get access to the whole bearing.
keep your old bearing for when you are putting the new one, place it on top of the new one and hit that instead of the one you just bought,
good luck
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[stinkwheel]

As with anything, you get different qualities of bearing. A lot of bikes use really shitty ones as standard (money saving at the factory). If you order them from a bike shop, they will sell you the 'standard' bearing. They are often open and you have to grease them. Dust and crap can get in too.

Ones from a bearing factors will almost certainly be sealed units with the grease already inside and built-in dust covers. Fit and forget.

My mate ordered some wheel bearings from the kawasaki shop for his bike. They charged him £16 each for open, Taiwanese made bearings. I told him to take them back. We went half a mile up the road and got metal sealed, French made ones for a fiver each at the bearing factors.

Why French over Taiwanese? It's all down to tolerances. The French ones are much more likely to be exactly the size they are supposed to be, the races more perfectly circular and the balls more perfectly spherical. All makes for smoother, better fitting and longer lasting items.

There's a branch of Swan bearings in London. They are a big commercial bearing supplier but they will have a sales desk for cash sales too. If they don't have them in stock, I'll eat my hat. https://www.touchlondon.co.uk/business/list/bid/3006103

[LUXY DJ]

k cheers peeps

EC2 so none nearer south london then?

cause id be riding up to there & its (from what i can see) on the right side(disk side) thats moving around

oh & hmmmnz,wtf is weremoto? google found nothing
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[stinkwheel]

GSXR600 yeah?

By the power of Google.

Sprocket carrier: 62/32 2RS
Right rear: 6205 2RS
Left rear: 62/32 2RS

[LUXY DJ]

diamond geeeeeeezer!

so i assume thats for the SRAD? as im sure alot has changed from K-series(maybe not bearings tho)

so just go to a "bearing place" & ask for them codes?

also did it give you price on whatever site you checked?
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[Type_Mo]

[hmmmnz]

oops damn that dyslexia kicking in
sorry
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[stinkwheel]

Seemed to be the same size for all the GSXRs (well, the 600s and 750s anyway, which is what I looked at). They are different to all the other suzukis of a similar size with that odd sized sprocket bearing.

Yeah, ask for that code, tell them they are for motorcycle wheel bearings and they'll sort you out.

[LUXY DJ]

k nice 1 stinky but can i ONLY get these from the "bearing factors"? as iv never heard of them before,like cant get them from any other place whatsoever??

are they actual shops?
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[Gradog]

You could also try Brentford Bearings, that is who i use.
02089772745, you will just need the code number stamped on the bearings, and he will advise on the best options available.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Here is a pretty shot bearing for your amusement:-

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/TempPicture/DodgyBearing.jpg

And to add to the fun, this is what you might find at the same time if you are unlucky

https://www.alfa-pages.co.uk/TempPicture/DodgyDisk.jpg

All the best

Keith
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[LUXY DJ]

did you crack that disk or was it like that?

[stinkwheel]

If it is a specialist bearing shop (as implied by the name), they will most likely have a selection of four or five different makes in your size and will advise you which to get. All of them will be cheaper than buying 'genuine' spares.

I seem to have turned a simple job into something of a mammoth task here. The ones you would get from a bike shop are perfectly ok, just there are better ones available. I just personally object to paying over the odds when I know I can easily get something better quality for less money.

I suppose I'm maybe just fortunate that there is a bearing factors just up the road form the local bike shop (and it doesn't seem so much effort for the guy in the bearing factors, less puffing and blowing and less time taken to emerge from behind a newspaper/cup of coffee to serve a customer).

[Kickstart]

[LUXY DJ]

[firefox]

my balls fell out of my bearings, think it had gone ages ago

[stinkwheel]

Swan bearings will have them, they are a really big company. I'm afraid I don't know how far away that is from you, I have no idea about the geography of Greater London, and frankly, I have no need to.

To put things in perspective, I would have a 50 mile round trip to get to anything resembling a motorcycle spares shop (who would then tell me they don't have it in stock, come back in a week).

[Vin]

I have not used them but:
https://www.bikebearingshop.co.uk/index.htm
No good for today but the site looks like it has lots of useful information.

[Dom_]

I went to a motorcycle shop for mine, paid £4 each, and got some already sealed ones. You don't /have/ to order original equipment from a motorbike shop.

Also, don't leave it too late, this is what might happen to the contents of your wheel, like my last bike.

https://bikechatforums.com/download.php?id=14339
https://bikechatforums.com/download.php?id=14340

[LUXY DJ]

hmmm

well shop i phoned(brentford bearings) said the RHS 1 was £6 BUT the LHS 1 is £16 that wrong or what?

i went on the codes stinkwheel gave me(LHS= 62/32 2RS,RHS 6205 2RS)

im sure £16 is way OTT, i mean look what ulot have been saying you get them for
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