Wheel bearings and seals, 36 Terraplane

[Deleted User]

Where can I buy front wheel bearings and seals for my 36 Terraplane?

Unknown

Try Bill Albright, 909-823-9168

Jon B

Just a warning: the fronts will be a lot cheaper to find than the rears. Don't drop over in a faint, if someone quotes you an incredibly high price on the rears, however. We've had a hundred discussions here at the forum, and by investigating and shopping around, you can probably find some at a reduced rate. Or you may even be able to find some good used ones with a lot of mileage left on them.

Park_W

Your local NAPA store should have them. My ref. shows inner bearing and "cup" 15112 and 15250; outers are 09078 and 09195. Seal is CR or NAPA 15960.

timbersmith

Ya know, I wish I had my information handy . . . but at any rate, you can actually get the bearings through most places I'd imagine. I know rockauto has 'em, but I don't know about the seals, though.



I say that I wish I had my information cause a couple months back I was trying to find a disk brake setup that would bolt right on, using the Terraplane's bearings and a set of cups that could work. I got as far as figuring out that the rotors from some '80's - '90's Subaru applications might work, but haven't checked anything yet. I say might work because I had found some cone/cup configurations which would work without bushings or spacers, but don't know if the actual setup would work as a whole (rotor thickness, spindle length, etc). Of course, the bolt circle is different, but it did seem to have potential. The limitation in this setup is the inner bearing . . . there's not much out there that uses a 1.125” bore, anymore. Now, if the inner bearing bore was 1.25", then that would open up a huge amount of possibilities (a *lot* of Ford applications use the 1.25"/0.75" bore measurements), but I was trying to find something that didn't use a spacer.



- Mike

[Deleted User]

You only need the fronts not the rears i have the same numbers as Park an they fit right, The rear wheel bearings hardly ever go bad i have replaced my rear seals and not the bearings.

[Deleted User]

Thank you for the information guy's. I will only need the front bearings, I have converted the rear end to a Ford 8".

[Deleted User]

Chris

what year car was your 8 inch rear end from? Any trouble with installation?

[Deleted User]

I am not shure what originally the 8" came from, I pulled it from an 80 mustang (not original). If I had to guess I would say late 60's early 70 Comet or simular car. The width was within 1/2" and all I did was cut off the original spring purches and weld them on the new 8".