Rear wheel bearings!

 I find it rather amusing that the replacement bearings for the rear hub (not spung hub) come to almost £400.00 from traditional bearing suppliers.
Surely there must be a sensible alternative? I was thinking of taking a standard taper bearing to the nearest outer dimension and making a sleeve to emulate the original for the inner.

This is for another 3T that I own and fortunately both of the 1163X bearings (W7A part number) and the 1120NI outers shells a fine.

When I have experimented with this, I will post back

These bearings are for another 3T that I own and I hope to restore that a little more quickly this time!!

Things have been sent to try me!!

 I have been pre-occupied with other things since my last post but now the weather has changed, I thought it was time to get the 3T ready for the summer. 

The DVLA have now issued me with a period registration and I got a local guy to sign write the number plate for me. There are about half a dozen little jobs to sort out and then off we go - or at least I thought so. 

One little job was a petrol leak from the petrol tap - easy enough to sort but it was proving tricky. I removed the petrol tap and replaced it with a spare whilst I looked for replacement seals. The replacement tap leaked very slightly from the thread into the tank. A quick nip up and voila..

.. a broken blxxdy tap. I now have to remove the tank and attempt to remove the remains of the tap. I have no idea what the tap is made of but it is not brass. From it's weight it looks to be cast iron!!

So that has delayed things a bit.

I would like to fit a side stand but not sure if I have enough space by the fram to fit a clamp type one. I need to do some research.