You guys are the best at answering these sorts of questions, so I'm back again! ;D
I need to put together a thread about this build I'm working on (eventually) but I have a quick question about one of my case bearings.
6202Z bearings are NLA through Honda and hard to find otherwise. As luck would have it, I realized I'm quite local to All Balls Racing. They set me up with one of their 6202-2RS rubber sealed bearings and told me that picking the rubber seals out would be no big deal- it's an internal case bearing in a blind mount with plenty of oil supply.
I pull the 6020Z today and have an "aha" moment as to what that Z means: It's metal sealed on the blind side:
(Ignore the grime, I got it soda blasted with bearings in place because they were cooked critters anyways.)
Here's where it mounts- the right hand blind bearing hole:
Now, I already picked out the new 6202's rubber seals and chucked them... (probably a dipshit move on my part but what are you gonna do) so my question is if a regular 6202 bearing can be run "naked" inside of that race with no problems, or if that metal blind side seal needs to be there. Part of me says they wouldn't put a specific type of bearing in there for no good reason, but then again I can't really see why it would make a difference...
Any thoughts?
I need to put together a thread about this build I'm working on (eventually) but I have a quick question about one of my case bearings.
6202Z bearings are NLA through Honda and hard to find otherwise. As luck would have it, I realized I'm quite local to All Balls Racing. They set me up with one of their 6202-2RS rubber sealed bearings and told me that picking the rubber seals out would be no big deal- it's an internal case bearing in a blind mount with plenty of oil supply.
I pull the 6020Z today and have an "aha" moment as to what that Z means: It's metal sealed on the blind side:
(Ignore the grime, I got it soda blasted with bearings in place because they were cooked critters anyways.)
Here's where it mounts- the right hand blind bearing hole:
Now, I already picked out the new 6202's rubber seals and chucked them... (probably a dipshit move on my part but what are you gonna do) so my question is if a regular 6202 bearing can be run "naked" inside of that race with no problems, or if that metal blind side seal needs to be there. Part of me says they wouldn't put a specific type of bearing in there for no good reason, but then again I can't really see why it would make a difference...
Any thoughts?