Hudson bearing 71596/25877T

Richie

Just bought this bearing on e-bay, seems to be the correct one as stamped on the back of the bearing is 25877T and is in a Hudson box with the #71596

The cage has a few small spots of rust but the rest looks good. Maybe I got lucky, I'll know after I get it. Richie.

Huddy42

If you end up with a 25877T, go buy your self a lottery ticket as you have just hit the jackpot with that buy.

RonS

Congrats,Richie, I saw that pop up about a moment before I went on line.Could be the last one known to mankind. I was going to grab it, But my wife yelled at me for buying a part not for my 53 Hornet, So I wimped out & hoped that a Hudson owner will see and realize what they can buy for $20. Buy the way the neutral saftey switch is a good deal as well. Have a NOS one.

barrysweet52

I have bought a few diffs (have 6) just to get these bearings. Also to look for a better ratio, brake drums, wheels and to stop them going to China. Barry

PAULARGETYPE

I hate to be the bearer of sad news but there are 77t bearings out there i know i have 2 of them in my stock if same one really needed one i also know of a hudson guy who has many more i know there hard to find but when did you last hear of some trearing up and axel bearing in over 42 years of hudsoning i never have

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Its great you got the bearings but i would agree with Paul i have never heard of anyone actually tearing a rear bearing in a Hudson up that a guy would ever need one but to have one on hand is not a bad idea. Look at all the other parts we buy we will never use either. Chuck G

Huddy42

When I purchased my '42 Hudson from the USA, I had to replace both rear bearings due to the fact that the car had sat for so long , I had a growl in the rear end, on pulling out the bearings I found that they had slight grooves in the cups from sitting around, replaced the bearings and bingo no more growling.Remember the car had 14,093 original miles on it in 1989.So it had sat around a lot.



I have quite a few second hand bearings here if anyone needs one or two.

Richie

Got the bearing today and was just as seller advertised. Small rust spot on the cage but bearing is good, still had hardened grease on the rollers. Its good to have a bit of good luck from time to time. Richie

ernie28

I have a friend in engineering supplies and he looked up for me and he thinks a contact of his may have a very few 25877T bearings available. I probably will take a couple for the shelf and there may be 2 or 4 extras. Cost would be in the NZ$600 region each. If anyone is interested, PM or email me please.

I am confused that this thread refers to 25877T yet the 1950 Group Parts Catalogue refers to 25887T - is this a typo, was there a change in years or are they effectively the same? Which is correct?

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Its a typo. Parts group has any number of those. lol. The 't' refers to tapered. I Think Timken only produced those for Hudson. Not totally positive on that. Others produced them as well but Timken was the major supplier.

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KEL 39

I have thought about a tapered sleeve for the 2789 bearing , but why would it have to be
hardened ? The front wheel bearing seat in non hardened OD (hub) and ID (spindle) and do not seem to have a problem ?

bob ward

A tapered sleeve is one approach, another is to turn the bearing seat parallel, another is to grind the ID of a suitable bearing and make it into a 25877T replica.

My first choice out of these 3 would be grinding the ID, I think Ken U may have looked into this quite some time ago.

All of this is on the assumptions of course that no good used bearings are available and that any NOS bearings are hideously expensive.

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KEL 39

I don't if grinding the inner race would be a good idea as this would probably go thru the case hardening of the inner race and destroy the integrity of the bearing ??

RL Chilton

"I don't if grinding the inner race would be a good idea as this would probably go thru the case hardening of the inner race and destroy the integrity of the bearing ??"

That's a VERY good thought.

ernie28

I talked to him again re the price and he has come back with a revised price of NZ$450 each which I am pleased about but only if I take the lot.
If there is no interest he may just have them on the shelf for a few more years yet!

Clutchguy

Call George at Ol Car Bearing,listed in Hemmings Motor News. He always has them in stock.

ski4life65

NZ$450 is about $540 US !!! Ouch. Is that really the going rate?

essexcoupe3131

Hi Ski, you got it around the wrong way US $ is worth more than ours
would work out at around $374-375 US$
Mike