Recent content by Overtorqued

If they do fit please report back, I think I've seen the OEM seals for sale somewhere.

No need, the bearing itself seems good quality. I'm going to poke around some seal manufacturers and see if I can come up with something to seal them up. If you happen to get a new batch in with a proper seal let me know and I will buy another, maybe the manufacturer had a bad run of seals...

Well, darn. I was hoping I just got a dud. I'll take some measurements this weekend and see if I can come up with a seal that will work in them.

I've been hoping someone would check theirs and see if it has a gap like mine. Hard to see it unless you have a light behind the bearing. I know this one would never hold a pressure or vacuum test but if someone else has one like mine and has been able to tune around it I'll give it a shot. If...

Yours appears to be sealed up pretty well, honestly I didnt notice the gap in mine until I was putting it back in the bag and caught it just right in the light.

Here's another the day I found it, after draining the water out of the case. LOL

Here's a couple of the saw, I actually found this still in the case with the original bar and some extra parts in a storage shed on my property. The case had water in it and the saw looked terrible until I started cleaning, still can't believe it cleaned up that well! As for the bearing, this...

First time poster, I recently acquired a very nice 93 model 42 special, unfortunately it's plagued with a bad PTO side crank bearing. I ordered an aftermarket bearing from saw salvage but to my surprise there's a pretty large gap between the seal and the inner race of the bearing, has anyone...