Chloe is giving me "the look." Guess I better let her do her thing outside. Later men. As you were!

 

Well, since I consider DD a training bra, I'd say female

 

Good news Lou I found a bearing company that is willing to take a look at the main drive gear bearing.The best part is they are in New York, an American made company making an American made bearing. Miracles never cease. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Are troubles are over. Raise the flags America is back in business. F##k you China take your pieces of **** and shove'um up your a$$. Oh yeah and F#$k you too Kim Sum dum lou lee lee don't need your crap bearings either.

 

Very good news Mark. Do they make comps as well?

 

That's what the dealer who will be testing the bearing asked me. One at a time. The comp will be an engineering thing, I'm just a salesman. But I can source a bearing gol dang it.

 

Mornin al you import bearing haters
NY so nice they named it twice

Rain here, last night and prolly tomorrow

Off to read the news, youse have a good one

HEY AL, YA hear bout the Bourbon shortage????

 

...... Hi Scot-ee and doc too .

 

Werked with a few female mechs, wasn't any fun. Lacked strength & co-ordination for too many things, guys hadda carry part of their load, too. There's some that are sharp, though. Hadda lady friend that really knew her 747's, never teamed with her, but heard she was a good one. Few out there. Maybe 5%... My daughter could probably do it, but to her wrenching is just a chore, can do it when it needs it, but doesn't like it. Probably got more tools than 98% of the females in the country, but that's just for her own stuf, doubt she'd ever wrench on anyone else's.

 

Yer blues are close to my reds. Thank God...

 

I think most of the import problems are grease, not metal. Hadda Toyota eating alternator bearings, took the seals offa new one and it had about a 16th inch bead of clear (vaseline?) grease on one side, on the cage, not even touching a ball. Wiped that off, put Aeroshell 7 (common aircraft grease at the time) in it, got over 60,000 more miles on it till I sold the car. Ran into the same thing on a lot of aircraft bearings - and some of those were in plastic envelopes marked "Country of Origin Unknown". So much for FAA oversight...

In my experience, chinese bearings are worst, Korean are best from Asia. I refuse to use anything from India, so can't say about their stuf. Can't go wrong with made in the USA, get that when I can.