Thought I'd save some money and find some a/m wheel bearings. The only ones the bearing house could cross reference were DH bearings # DH-559339-1. All the specs matched and they were 51 bucks for all four. 1" bearings on my 07. All four for less than two at HD. What a deal. Had a failure on the front wheel at app. 800 miles. Replaced with HD. At approx. 1500 miles had one on the rear fail. All my bearings are now HD. HD may be expensive but sometimes the extra cost is worth it. Had to do the job twice and ended up with the HD's after all. What's your time and labor worth. Also the rear bearing started to fail on the way to LA. Luckily it did get me home.

 

Yoy should have used Timken Brgs.

 

No cross reference. Read my post again.

 

I posted some info over on the Dyna thread with numbers for Timken (Fanfir) bearings.

205PP

Should be the same for touring bikes.

 

Went thru the threads and nothing matched any cheaper or for the same price as HD. Also didn't see a positive match. I think if an industrial bearing house couldn't match it we may be jumping thru hoops.

 

Sorry, make that 205PP not 208.

 

The issue is not finding cheaper, it's finding better. Some of us have encountered stability problems with the stock chinese (etc) bearings. The Timken is much better quality for about the same price.

 

The stock 1" bearings are actually made in the Cech Republic.

 

Mine were from china, lol. The bearing shop was surprised that a company like Harley used this poor quality of wheel bearing. They passed it around the office and talked about it. everyone was surprised. "Are you sure that's what they put in it at the factory ?"

 

That's HD for ya.