Help needed to identify trailer bearings

Thanks Nick, OK, that makes sense... regards Michael

Gday Michael,
The Tvan has parallel bearings and they are exactly as Nick has described - both bearings are the large (inner) Ford bearings.
Cheers
Phil

Gday Phil,
Hows things, I bent my axle, springs broke all the 'U' bolts and everything including the electric brakes, they also need replacing so i want to make sure i optimise all the parts.... $1200,,,, not a cheap exercise for what it is... Michael

so its just a play on words?...they are both still taper roller bearings??

member no 1,
they can carry a little more load and I think its a great idea to have the same bearings on both sides if one fails it can fit anywhere ,so what would you rename them as ??

parallel? or taper.....?
what are parallel bearings...never heard of such a thing...heard of roller, rtaper roller, deep grove, needle bearing, angular contact, double row this and that etc etc

is it a standard roller type or is it two identical TAPER roller bearings on each hub?..if its taper roller why call them parallel bearings...a play on words calling them parallel

they are Taper Roller bearings...nothing else if that is the case

MN1, they are 2 identical tapered roller bearings (cup & cone) in each hub...

Most common size is the standard Ford (slimline) inner, though I have owned a trailer which had the (smaller shaft diameter) Holden inners, same configuration...

I guess the 'play on words' comes about from the fact that the stub is machined to a single diameter (parallel) to accommodate the 2 identical bearings, hence the commonly used term "parallel bearings"....

clear as mud ???

Catch ya later... Ed C

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There not describing /identifiying the type of bearing used in saying parallel they are describing the set up on the axle,the type of bearing is up to who ever has desighned the setup,when speaking to blokes in the game they all seem to know what it means ??? Hmm?

clear as mud Ed...

even got a SA member calling them parallel....gee i thought we only had smart people in here...lol...sorry phil...lol

is it any wonder why I couldnt figure out how they worked when you had axial load applied....now I know..there is not such a thing.....they are really tapered roller bearings!!!! and not parallel bearings.

who (probably an accountant or pollitician) started/invented this stupid term to describe this tandem bearing setup.....its not correct....doesnt matter if one is smaller than the other or not...they are not "parallel bearings"

Member NO 1... The same thing occured to me, how the axial load is applied. Now we have established they are Tapered, it makes sense!!!

Thanks everyone!! Michael