any of you guys replaced that recently ... any reccommendations or price range I'm lookin at
Mike
Mike
Good price for center carrier bearing ? anyone
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Damn, that's pretty steep for a rubber donut and a bearing...
Is that price for the whole assembly, or just the bearing?
Is that price for the whole assembly, or just the bearing?
Preparing for the flame:
$40 from Autozone, but you have to cut the new casing away and discard it, drill out the rivets on the original and put the new bearing into the original housing and close it up with three bolts. Quick fix that has served me well for about 4,000 miles. There a few threads on the site.
Yes, it's ghetto, but I was a little short and it needed to be done. I will use the real deal if it doesn't last.
$40 from Autozone, but you have to cut the new casing away and discard it, drill out the rivets on the original and put the new bearing into the original housing and close it up with three bolts. Quick fix that has served me well for about 4,000 miles. There a few threads on the site.
Yes, it's ghetto, but I was a little short and it needed to be done. I will use the real deal if it doesn't last.
The new bearing, the actual BEARING part is cheap (was $20 for a mk2), it's the whole damn housing that's expensive from $120 - $200
Shytheed Dumas said:
I bought the same thing.. didn't know it wouldn't bolt up.. and needed the car right away so I did the same thing... it's been fine ever since..
Hmmm...so you can get the carrier assembly with the rubber surround from Autozone? Do you have any pics? There's no vibration with that one?
You can get the whole center carrier bearing.. the whole assembly.. rubber part with the surrounding metal part that normally bolts to the body.
The only problem.. the bearing from Autozone has the mounts centered on the bearing.. while the OEM one has them offset toward the top.
The only problem.. the bearing from Autozone has the mounts centered on the bearing.. while the OEM one has them offset toward the top.
Hmmm...how did you get the new bolt holes in the perfect spots? If they were off even a little bit, wouldn't it cause vibration?
I honestly don't remember.. I bolted it up with big bolts... and before I put it in the car I tried to see if it would move.. and it didn't so I threw it on and didn't have one problem. I can try and take it off and snap some pics.
The reason I say I can try is cause its on jack stands.. but it's pretty low... so I don't know if I can get under there.
The reason I say I can try is cause its on jack stands.. but it's pretty low... so I don't know if I can get under there.
Whatever you do DONT take a Supra to Oceanside Transmission. They see Supra they triple the bill they had my car for 5 days even though they told me it would only take one day. The bill was 578.00 for a remanufactured Center Carrier Assembly that they sent out and had done. I got in the car and it had the exact same whine as it had when I took it there. The lame shop dude kept saying I don’t hear anything man. I knew it was time to cut my losses and get the hell out of there. Word of mouth is Powerful Advertising.
Rick
Rick
suprageezer said:
:aigo: :aigo: :aigo: :aigo: :aigo: :aigo: DAMN!!!! You could have gotten an aluminum DS & had similar turn around time!
^Ouch man. You do know that doing a lot of the work on our cars isn't as hard as it seems right? You would be surprised by how much you save (and learn) from doing the maintenance on the car yourself 
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my supra had a bad support bearing and bad u joints I priced of fixing or replacing I end up geting a drive shaft from the driveshaftshop.com I had it in about 2 days that is the best way to go get rid of the support bearing you will be glad you did
A local driveshaft place around here sells them for $70-$100, I'm gonna go ahead and go with that. Mine needs to be replaced soon too.
My 87T made a whining noise from the bottom.. I checked the center bearing.. I could move the driveshaft by hand, if I shake it.. thought the bearing is bad.. bought new one from Champion for $$$, replaced it, and the noise stayed same as before.. then, I found out it was the pinion bearing in my differential.. replaced differential with a used one, the noise WENT AWAY... did I really needed to replace the center bearing at top $$ ?? I may never know...