BCA Hub Assemblies

[oggb]

Feels great and it's dead silent. I've put on my fair share of hub assemblies and the only company that makes 'em like this anymore (on a regular basis) is SKF, maybe AC Delco if it's for a GM product. This was $75 from RockAuto, made in Japan, and about $35 cheaper than SKF and $15 cheaper than Timken.

Local Federated auto parts actually stopped carrying Timken and started carrying BCA. They're either made or owned by NTN (don't remember).

 

[Trav]

Yes they are owned by NTN you also find them with the Bower BCA name. They are and always were a good product.

 

[Brons2]

Which one of your vehicles did this go on?

Timken are mostly made in India now from what I've seen. A long time ago they used to be the gold standard, now, not so much.

 

[oggb]

Which one of your vehicles did this go on?

Timken are mostly made in India now from what I've seen. A long time ago they used to be the gold standard, now, not so much.

Went on a friend's 06 Prius.

I was skeptical of the quality because of how much cheaper it was than an SKF part -- they're usually my go-to on stuff I don't feel like doing twice -- but I'm pretty impressed. I'm not sure that I'd heard of BCA until recently.

 

[Trav]

BCA is a very old brand known for high quality.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Never heard of this particular brand. Maybe I should put this on my dads car it’s been through 3 sets of bearings in 3 months I have no idea what’s making them go bad.

 

[Trav]

What kind of car and what are you using?

 

[AutoMechanic]

What kind of car and what are you using?

2004 Toyota Camry XLE and the first time we used Timken the second and third time Beck and Arnley

 

[JC1]

Never heard of this particular brand. Maybe I should put this on my dads car it’s been through 3 sets of bearings in 3 months I have no idea what’s making them go bad.

Wow three times in three months. Were all three on the same side? Are there any possible alignment issues with the Camry?

 

[AutoMechanic]

Wow three times in three months. Were all three on the same side? Are there any possible alignment issues with the Camry?

It’s both sides. I always do bearings in pairs because that’s what I was trained to do and both were bad originally too so I done both sides it’s on the front. No alignment issues I had taken it to the shop to check that and it was in spec. It was recently aligned but I checked again. Yeah me and my dad are stumped he originally screamed at me for it happening insisting that I messed it up but then he realized it may have not been my fault so he apologized and bought me my own hydraulic press for the house lol.

 

[Trav]

I would use SKF FW50 in that car, they seem to last forever. As you have had this apart before it should be easy to use a puller/installer on the car/
This will work fine for this job, I wouldn't use it on one that had been in for 10 years in the rust belt but this one should come right out and the money is not bad.

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[Chris142]

Never heard of this particular brand. Maybe I should put this on my dads car it’s been through 3 sets of bearings in 3 months I have no idea what’s making them go bad.

Really? Very common around here

 

[AutoMechanic]

Really? Very common around here

Nope nobody around me sells them or anything so I had never heard of them.

 

[AutoMechanic]

I would use SKF FW50 in that car, they seem to last forever. As you have had this apart before it should be easy to use a puller/installer on the car/
This will work fine for this job, I wouldn't use it on one that had been in for 10 years in the rust belt but this one should come right out and the money is not bad.

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Thanks. I will give them a try. It will be fun to do on a gravel driveway again lol. I will also give that tool set a try as I don’t have any adapters for my press at home and I don’t feel like dragging them to work again. If my dad will go for these parts and it goes out again then I know something will be up with the car. I torqued everything down to spec so I know it wasn’t over torqued or anything.

 

[Trav]

Put a pad big enough to work on a car down with pavers or put the jack stand(s) on an old brake rotor on top a piece of 3/4 plywood.

 

[Kestas]

Never heard of this particular brand. Maybe I should put this on my dads car it’s been through 3 sets of bearings in 3 months I have no idea what’s making them go bad.

Improper installation?

 

[SatinSilver]

Never heard of this particular brand. Maybe I should put this on my dads car it’s been through 3 sets of bearings in 3 months I have no idea what’s making them go bad.

Where are you buying the bearings from?

 

[GMBoy]

Improper installation?

I was thinking the same thing - if you over torque it will lead to a quick failure, especially with an impact gun.

 

[AutoMechanic]

I was thinking the same thing - if you over torque it will lead to a quick failure, especially with an impact gun.

I never torque them with an impact unless I have a torque stick on. I used my torque wrench and a big ratchet to tighten it down.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Where are you buying the bearings from?

RockAuto was the first set of Timken. The two sets of Beck and Arnley came from Advance Auto.