At 70,000 miles, it's getting close to that time to think about replacing my rear wheel bearings. Since "those in the know" know that HD's bearings are now all crap coming out of China, has anyone cross-referenced the 3/4" axle bearings used on the stock rear wheel up through year 2004 to a US manufacturer?

Yea, I have the HD parts manual, but I don't want the garbage Chinese bearings HD is selling now, and would like to order the bearings before having to pull the wheel off, pull the bearings, and then have to go shopping for them.

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http://www.powersportrider.com/cgi-bin/zcatjpg Hi cHarley. I just installed a set of All *****(ceramic) in my race bike and have two sets in my 04' FXST that i installed a little two years ago and about 54,000 miles later they're still going. Now i don't know what the bearing says on it now a days but mine said "USA" on'em..

 

Thanks, I'd love set of All ***** ceramic bearings, but the link you supplied doesn't get me any closer to a real part number.

 

Sorry bout that. let's try that again. Now these aren't the ceramic ones.
But work quite well.

 

Very cool, the All ***** should work just fine...

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i just bought HD ones, they are timken made in the usa, i had the same concerns than i found out some of the all ***** are made in china....oh well!

 

Thanks for your sharing, I need this kind of information.*