Are these bearings bad?

[Chainsaw Jim]

Apparently the last person to put this case together missed something...



064 fw side

 

[Pincher]

Or maybe it had a plastic cage and was digested.

 

[jacob j.]

Or maybe it had a plastic cage and was digested.

I'll bet that's what happened. I've seen it on a few 044s. Sometimes there's small bits of the cage left.

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

Oh for sure on the plastic cage. It's all melted down. I thought at first it was missing a couple bearings.

 

[cus_deluxe]

Yikes.

 

[Jimmy in NC]

Sadly Ive seen that more than once in Husky and Stihl.

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[Onan18]

Apparently the last person to put this case together missed something...

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064 fw side

Dang!

 

[67L36Driver]

Space them back out proper. Use ‘peeps’ from your kids Easter basket as spacers. [emoji108]

 

[Lee H]

Why I refuse to use a plastic caged bearing.

 

[stihl_head1982]

Why I refuse to use a plastic caged bearing.

Not throwing a rock here. Quite a few OEM bearings I have used have plastic cages. What is one to do when he needs a proprietary PTO bearing and it only comes in plastic cage replacements from Stihl?
Help me out here.

 

[Lee H]

If it's proprietary then there is no other option.
But there are plenty of saws out there where bearings can
be had elsewhere with steel cages.

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

Dang!

Yes... dang as in "Dang I can't believe Jim thought bearings were missing."

 

[rocketnorton]

If it's proprietary then there is no other option.
But there are plenty of saws out there where bearings can
be had elsewhere with steel cages.

that fw side is one. $9. @ bearing shop.

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

That would be 6203 C3.

 

[jacob j.]

McCulloch used some bearings for a time that didn't have any cages. They came on some of the early kart engines. They used a larger center roller with a deeper groove and packed more roller balls in, and the outer race was split and relied on the pressure from the bearing seat in the crankcase to hold it together.

 

[Lee H]

Jacob, Every 797 and most original 125's had the cage less bearings. The outer race had a split
to expand to install the balls. They lasted forever.