london_chris

hi all, justa quick one, a mate of mine has asked me to do his rear wheel bearings for him on sunday coming, now i just need some clarification as to whether the motor factors is gonna be supplying the right part?

they are trying to give me a taper bearing kit with 2 sets of bearings and 2 cups etc like you would find in a car with drums, now i presume that as the car has discs that it should be a single cartridge type bearing?

am i wrong?

hope someone can help!

cheers

chris

STeve

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sounds spot on to me ,as its only rear disc versions that are different and need to be pressed like the fronts

Mike C

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Unless they've been converted, most N-Reg RS2000's will have drums on the rear.

I've got an N-Reg RS2000 and have just completely rebuilt the rear brake and hub assembly.

If it has drums, what they've supplied is correct. If it discs, then it's wrong.

Moonstone Steve.

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Did they downgrade them from the earlier version then??? I had a 91 on a J rs2000 and it had disc with drum for the handbrake combination, unless we are talking 1974 RS 2000.

Steve

D19 STE

Thats not true my 1995 Mk6 RS2K has rear discs as standard this is because a selected few of the early models came with rear discs like mine, then they said they upgraded the ABS system to a better system so then they put drums on the rears of the rest of the RS2k's

Mike C

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Is yours originally an M or N plate though?

MK5 and MK5 Facelift RS2000's had rear discs, as did the first run of MK6's (very early ones). After that they switched to drums.

I thought all MK6's with discs were M-Reg only, but perhaps some very early N's were too, or could have been registered late.

The one I have is a November 1995 N-Reg (so a fairly early N) with rear drums and 4-wheel ABS.

STeve

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My N plate 1996 4x4 rs2k has rear discs as standard

Mike C

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I thought all 4x4's had discs and 2-Wheel ABS?

Not 100% sure on that one, but that's what I've always believed.

london_chris

great, there is no real clarity in here!

it is a disc model and they are adamant that they are taper bearings and not cartridge?

looks like ill just get what they tell me is right and hope for the best.

Mike C

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They may be right looking at Ste's rear disc hub assembly, but having never stripped a disc'd model, I don't know.

STeve

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just do a parts request on fordpartsuk which as they ask for your vin number and they will tell you in their reply what bearing kit is needed ,I reckon its the set the same as with the drums tbh ,as my garage did my bearings last winter so I did not see what type they were.

Mike Im pretty sure your right all 4x4s had a rear disc beam as standard as I have never seen one without it

vaughant

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Could well be right mate,we used to make the 130bhp cabriolet ones in the ford plant in Swansea and they had the drum/handbrake inside the disc,so effectively a drum with a disc machined on the outside!!!
Right pain in the arse to make as well!!!

Glenn_

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Im sure all the mk5 RS2000,s had discs on the back and a few mk6,s had drums and some had disc,s.

RS_JAY

My N reg MK6 RS2000 has discs on the back as standard and is 2 wheel drive. Remember someone else asking about this a while back.

Rs Gary

what they have said is correct,it is the same as a drum brake set up,the discs on the rear of the rs2000 has a drum like brake built into it for the handbrake shoes
cheerS gary
AKA shrek

vaughant

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Must be the same as the 130hp xr3i's then,the pisspots as they were known!!!very rarely we made them so that figures as I doubt that many were sold in comparison to poverty spec models.

D19 STE

Its a 2wd N Plate (13/10/1995) so a month before yours

Mike C

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That must be the cut-off point then. So some very early N-Reg's obviously have them then. Anything after that is drums, but with 4 wheel ABS as opposed to 2.

D19 STE

Sounds about right that