Ford Blitz Restoration/Rebuild

[Private_collector]

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Finally got the axle/diff casings sandblasted this morning, and etch primed in PM. The wooden plates I made for the open ends worked well, with only a slight blow through on the half with pinion. It was lucky I had wrapped pinion gear & bearings in a layer of rag. No grit got through to bearings as far as I can tell. There is no evidence of grit with turning the pinion.
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Picked up the two bearing cups for the inner axle shaft to diff assembly, and the guys at the bearing shop (Gympie Bearing Service) told me some very interesting information about the quantity of chinese fake bearing parts which are getting onto the market. The story goes that China are producing counterfiet 'Timken' bearings which are in near perfect Timken copy boxes.
He told me that Timken genuine bearings have the Timken name/logo on right upper corner of the box edges and the bearing No. & barcode on left bottom of same side. He tells me that any variation of this is definately a fake! I don't know if this is 100% true, but he stated it as fact and it was agreed from the other 2 staff present in the shop. He did actually show me a box with a fake from china that Timken had given them to show to people, and the differences were obvious once told what to look for. There are visible flaws in the chinese bearings as well. Buyer beware.

The bearing cups (Timken, 33462) cost $24.00 each incidentally.