01-12-2017, 01:23 PM
(30-11-2017, 06:23 PM)Dennis Nicholas Wrote: Would phosphor bronze thrusts wear the axle faces or would they just wear out themselves?
Dennis.
Can't give a definitive answer on that. The special in my avatar has had a Big 7 front axle with these thrust washers for the last 20 years or so, there doesn't seem to be any more endfloat of the stub axle than when I put it together -I do regularly grease the kingpins though.
I think that most of the exceptional heavy wear on bits of our cars will have occurred during the long period of them being just unloved "old bangers" which only received maintenance when something fell off; especially so in the years immediately before the MOT test was introduced.