FAG's?
 

The HD branded wheel bearings are manufactured in South Korea, which leads me to believe they are the FAG brand by Schaeffler Korea. Does anyone here know if this is true? If so, they are reputed to be of a very high quality matching other name brands such as SKF.

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Fooled me, thought this was going to be an import bike thread... Thanks for the post, I am following this one.

I have used FAG bearings in the past on trucks, no issues.

While I have no idea if the make the HD bearings, I do know that 1 rear OEM bearing fail at 12K. Not burnt up yet, just noisy and a bit gritty.

I thought you went the SKF route last month?

I tried to get the SKF but after getting sent a different part number than what I ordered, and with little effort from local bearing suppliers I got frustrated and gave up. I did the rear last weekend including the sprocket then decided to do the front also. These are for the front, and I got curious about where they come from.

I know for sure the original 9252 encoder side bearings on my ‘14 Limited were FAG Canada. That’s all I got.

Was the bearing marked with an identifier?

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That leaves little doubt, thanks!

I guess all I had to do was open the package. The ABS bearing is marked, but the non-ABS bearing isn't. Since they both come from South Korea that's enough evidence for me.

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A 9276A bearing I removed has F-573619 on it. I found this doing a Google search:


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