Re: Rear axle bearings

[n9ads@domain.elided (Howard R Pletcher)]

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 06:49:45 -0600 Todd Thomas
<tthomas@domain.elided> writes:
>Is it true that the Dana 44 rear axle shaft outter bearings are taper
>bearings?  This goes against the most creative logic that I can come 
>up
>with.  The reason that I ask is that when I opened up my rear axle on 
>one
>side I had a taper bearing and on the other side I had a sealed 
>bearing.
>Logic told me that the taper bearing is the wrong bearing and that the
>sealed bearing was correct.  The parts guy said the opposite.
>
>Anybody have Part Numbers (Timken, Federal Mongul, etc.) for the 
>bearing,
>inner seal, outer seal, and the retaining ring?  IH part numbers don't 
>help
>much without a way to cross reference them.


Timken Set #10 contains the replacement bearing and retaining ring.