[Richard]

I thought I heard felt a unusual rumble through the night. Examination this morning revealed that the blower absolutely ate the oilite bushing last night. It ate it so bad that the shaft wore into the hard metal of the bushing holder and scored the shaft. Now this is a problem because one, no coach power while at my mothers, two can't sleep in her house because she is a smoker and it stuffs me up, three we are supposed to leave this morning as soon as the new air bag is installed, four Grainger doesn't have a new blower in stock and it will be another day to get one. Sigh.....the kingdom is lost for want of a nail story[attachment=2606]

So, it's off to the tractor supply to see what can be done. I was lucky and found a sealed bearing with a 1 inch bore, they also had the holder for the bearing but it was four hole mounting and the fan has three spokes. I used a u clamp to bridge two holes and one spoke, and I used J hooks to capture the other two spokes.

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And oh yeah, you are asking didn't i notice anything prior to such a bearing melt down. No. The pilot bushing on the side that failed split in two and actually pushed out of its holder. That why it failed so quickly.