Rolling Road stripped - Budget Fail as Split Roller Bearings cost the earth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- Rolling road parts are heavy and expensive. Its hard working on your own rolling road with normal garage tools. In this video I find out how heavy some of the parts are, and how much some of the replacement parts will be. Its frighteningly expensive to get split roller bearings. I get everything ready for blasting and begin to send rollers off.
Great work! Bit of new grease and send them 🤣
Hahahahahahah, "send them" has a lot to answer for :)
Nice work dude!
Surely you just renew the lot man!? Having it apart and rebuilding you can’t go putting those old ones back on surely?
Indeed! It's all a process, slowly digesting the bad news, trying on the idea of only renewing the bad ones, sleeping on it..... and then, of course spending nearly 3k on the full set. Fear not they're all getting changed :)
That happens, if bearings never get fresh grease.
Good to know. I guess it did look like there wasn't masses of grease I there. It's promising that some were in good shape. Gives me hope that with the right mai tenancy the new bearings should last a very very long time. I wouldn't he surprised if these are the original 60 year old bearings
The rollers are so big.... id make it into a single roll per wheel dyno far less bearings and the rollers a plenty big enough. Then youll have 2x spare rollers for future
Callan.... the thought had never crossed my mind, thats a very interesting idea......
I think I might have considered it if I'd thought of it earlier in the project. I could have got away with a smaller trailer, maybe I could have got the weight lower down, reducing the need for long ramps etc. I can see a load of advantages to this idea.... but I feel somewhat committed now (I have the bearings) and I think I'd like to cut and shut the frame if I went down this route to get the weight central on the trailer, this adds a lot of work and complexity getting it all accurately welded back together.
Thanks for the comment, I really appreciate it and it had me mulling the idea over for a long time.
I see you have a rolling road and have seen some.very interesting cars! Have you done the mapping? What software does your rolling road use?
Ah, I see bow, its a sports devices controller, I've had a little go with one of these. Very nice.
You've seen some very cool cars through you workshop.
@@lozlive had quite a few rolling road dyno projects over the years have used a few different softwares dynomite, dynertia3, sportdevices and yourdyno all seem to have advantages and disadvantages sportdevices has definitely been my go to choice if funds are there. Yourdyno has been quite good also
This is a great idea. I did think the dyno would be good for 2000hp all together huh haha.
@@caldog86 awesome. That's great to hear. I have just bought the yourdyno kit. It seemed a little easier to install and use than the Sport devices kit.
Video out this Friday with the controller being unbowed.
Thanks for the comment and thanks for the support.