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04-12-2010, 12:39 AM | #1 |
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Hyatt Clark wheel bearings
To decide what type of wheel bearings to put in I googled the ones I took out. On them is stamped HYATT CLARK LM501349. A newspaper article says they were located in New Jersey and were a subsidiary of GM used to make bearings for GM and went bankrupt in 1987 http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/03/bu...pagewanted=all . Another site says they were bought, I guess out of bankruptcy court, in 1987 http://www.fundinguniverse.com/compa...y-History.html Looks like the company that bought them now has some things made overseas.
So I am wondering whether the ones I just took out are 23 years old or whether bearings are still being made and stamped with the Hyatt Clark trade-mark. All goes to the question of whether there is much difference in wheel bearings. For front inner and outers one place here has offered to sell me a set for about $58 or a set from overseas for about $30. From other threads here I wonder whether the $58 set is also from overseas.
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