Front Wheel Bearing Dilema

[Bruzilla]

I don't know what all the hatred of Autozone is all about. The one I go to is great! The guys know their parts and if I need something they don't have, they get it for me within a few hours. Can't beat that (it also helps that there's a huge Autozone parts warehouse in Jacksonville).

 

[Ron 73]

I don't know what all the hatred of Autozone is all about. The one I go to is great! The guys know their parts and if I need something they don't have, they get it for me within a few hours. Can't beat that (it also helps that there's a huge Autozone parts warehouse in Jacksonville).

I can think of several, but the biggest one is and maybe just in this area they don't know cars. I was told just a couple days ago that 73 Plymouth didn't make a Sebring, Charlies auto parts did, im getting the parts today. They think they know everything about the cars but unless it comes up on a computer screen, it we, are wrong, I argued one time with a kid about a fuel pump gasket for a 350 Chevy engine he didn't have, told him to give me a 307 gasket and ill use that, of course that wont work.. he said, its the same thing and did work. the brake cylinders im getting now are off a Satellite, i told him i would make them fit on a Sebring lol.. I do think its whos working where you go, most of the ones around here only know rice burners and some trucks, oh well, not the first with me, wont be the last im sure. not meant for an argument, but around here, Auto Zone is not a good place, I don't hate them, but i ill go anywhere and use them last if cheaper and can stand the crazy, how many cylinders and doors do you have to have to make the right tail light bulb selection. lol...

 

[67 coronet]

I can think of several, but the biggest one is and maybe just in this area they don't know cars. I was told just a couple days ago that 73 Plymouth didn't make a Sebring, Charlies auto parts did, im getting the parts today. They think they know everything about the cars but unless it comes up on a computer screen, it we, are wrong, I argued one time with a kid about a fuel pump gasket for a 350 Chevy engine he didn't have, told him to give me a 307 gasket and ill use that, of course that wont work.. he said, its the same thing and did work. the brake cylinders im getting now are off a Satellite, i told him i would make them fit on a Sebring lol.. I do think its whos working where you go, most of the ones around here only know rice burners and some trucks, oh well, not the first with me, wont be the last im sure. not meant for an argument, but around here, Auto Zone is not a good place, I don't hate them, but i ill go anywhere and use them last if cheaper and can stand the crazy, how many cylinders and doors do you have to have to make the right tail light bulb selection. lol...

i have to agree with you ron.i purchase all the parts for a busy shop all day,and there are morons everywhere.the name on the building dosnt seem to mean much anymore.some of the dumbest people i talk to work at the assorted dealers.

 

[moparmarks]

Back to the bearing issue, this has been an interesting read. I was never aware of any different bearings between 73 and 74 or between pin and slider calipers. I looked in my 68-75 Factory crash parts book. It shows the same part numbers for the bearings both inner and outter for 73-5B. Does show a different rotor/hub for 73 than for 74-5

 

[Bruzilla]

I think moparmarks hit on a pretty excellent point. I remember well going through the stacks of parts catalogs at the auto parts stores of old and doing a lot of head scratching with the counter guy because the catalogs were often as screwed up as their computerized offspring. Stuff would be listed that was never made, never applied, or stuff that should have been listed wasn't. What was worse was when you ordered a part the books said would work and it didn't, it took a couple of weeks to get another part to try.

This situation was just another example of where everyone's systems have the data wrong, including NAPA by the way, but the only difference I see between parts guys giving you the wrong part based on bad data from a computer, and a parts guy giving you the wrong part based on bad data from an old paper book, is you don't plug the paper book in.

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i have to agree with you ron.i purchase all the parts for a busy shop all day,and there are morons everywhere.the name on the building dosnt seem to mean much anymore.some of the dumbest people i talk to work at the assorted dealers.

I just remember that at one point we were all morons too.