microBlue Front wheel bearings

I assume they coat the crank shaft journals not the white metal bearings.

 

you assume wrong...

they could do that though with an out of frame rebuild.

 

They only coated the main and rod bearings in my truck. They do not polish them in the REM bowls. Just the coating only.

 

I understand.

As far other posters who have an opinion about something they know nothing about and have zero experience with just tells me they are only being arguementive and not serious about getting better fuel mileage.

I am like you, a satisfied customer of MicroBlue and numberous other fuel saving products I have posted about trying to help others save money on fuel cost too and it really gets old getting blasted for trying to help others out. I liked the have it keyboard warriors.....LOL

 

All the coatings and polishing plus the labour it must be closer to 20 000, I haven't followed this thread so close. Here just changing Volvo drive axle wheel bearings costs something like 1500 euros, add 2000 euros from coating and polishing? Then do all other bearings and open engine and transmission?

 

You don't need experience of everything, you just need to think and study. I know that if I drink poison I will die, no need to test.

 

You might want to do more research on this Sherlock. Even though your bearings are sealed, I am guessing that your hubs are the same model as a oil bath unit. All that would be needed are new hubcaps, bearings, and wheel seals to convert them. But I guess wuth you being the expert on the gains that can/can not be had in this area...you already knew this tidbit.

 

No Sherlock, this is Scania, never had oilbath hubs. There's single very big bearing unit, grease lubricated, can't change the grease, just the whole bearing. Many european trucks and trailers have similar, they last much longer and no need for maintenance.

 

To everyone his own, but: there are things in the European trucks that can not be done like in the states. European design is much superior to the USA design and Europeans have the tenancy to think ahead/better than US people. - the automobile industry proves this. The quality from the USA manufacturers is stagnating in a lot of the aspects vs European. So, I would not jump into the conclusion of what can and what can not be converted without actually seeing the design.

I'm not the chemist, rather I'm a biologist. However, the microblue is a coating that is applied to the bearings. Even though it has tungsten in it, it is still a coating. What goes up must come down and what goes on must come off. For the slight exception: the bond between two or more products will be stronger if it is made at the molecular level and the atomic molecules were altered, in order to coat these bearings with the microblue. I have not seen the process but, I highly doubt that the microblue alters the chemical structure of the material being coated with the microblue. However, I'm not dismissing the fact that the coating may be applied to the surface of the substance without major, therefore it is minor, change, meaning bond, of the molecular surfaces, in order to make this transformation happen. Since I could not find the data, nor anyone knows, what needs to be done for the coating to separate from it's applied substance, the following was concluded: the wear of the compound will diplit it self over time, how long of the time? - data is not available nor the product has the history to varify and/or prove the point. To sum up, it is always easy to dismiss the idea of the uncharted territory, specially if it is flaw or flaky. However, it is, also, not wise to be assured of the fact that has no proven history in its application and it's purpose, as well as intended use.

( don't tempt scannia owners, they will tow all of the oversized and underpower units where they belong, grave yard - compactor)

 

That surprises me.
Not that I'm wrong.

So then both could be done.
I still cant wait to find out what the effective life of the coating is.
No one want to venture a guess?
An educated guess?
Any one?