Bearing retainer creep

I asked around and got a reply that something like this is needed during assembly:



www.bearing-king.co.uk/bearing/loctite-6...YTcJldQaAsZbEALw_wcB

Loctite seem to do 2 or 3 variants so I have dropped a query in to their support about product selection.

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That should help certainly. My only concern would be if there is enough force being applied in service to dislodge a compression fit retainer, that is a similar force as required for disassembly? At that money though it has to be worth a try.

I have exactly the same issue with J999MNY.

After our Nortumberland outing I noticed oil on the wheel so assumed it was the bearing failing.
Pulled that shaft (driver side) and found what your video shows. The bearing seems ok but has excess side movement. There was a small gap between the bearing and the abs collar. Memory serves from the garage pressing those bearings on saying that they were unable to get it down any further.
At the time i put a new oil seal in (thinking that was the problem) and left it at that.

Fast forward to last weekends mammoth outing around the lakes and oldham and I now have the same oil leak on the same wheel again. This time I will be heating the retainer up to get it on a bit further and see. I dont think mine is rotating, slipping or moving, just never been on far enough in the first place.

I pressed mine on fully originally, I am confident of that.

Will explore the "glue" route

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mlines wrote: I asked around and got a reply that something like this is needed during assembly:



www.bearing-king.co.uk/bearing/loctite-6...YTcJldQaAsZbEALw_wcB

Loctite seem to do 2 or 3 variants so I have dropped a query in to their support about product selection.

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Loctite 648 is the one you want, it works with press/interference fitted assemblies.
It shouldn't be able to, as you'd expect it to wipe off, but if you look at the shaft, there are fine lines caused by fitting the bearing & retainer, so there actually isn't 100% surface contact, and there is a microspace for the loctite to fill up and bond.

Many years ago when i built rally cars for a living, on the ford escorts we pressed the bearing retainer onto the shaft and then added a small weld to stop the retainer possibly creeping. Made it harder to next change the bearings but was considered worth it to prevent the halfshaft pulling out under extreme cornering loads
just a thought