My MicroBlue experience

The temp gun is the most used tool on my truck. My hubs, rear ends and tranny were 20 to 30 degrees cooler using MB.

I highly recommend a temp gun on every truck for not just the hubs, tranny and rears, but to find tires low on pressure that will be hotter without using tire gauge. Bought mine at Harbour Freight for around $40.

 

Keep it coming gokiddogo, there are a lot of folks who post here who enjoy the lift they get when pulling others down.

Those small gains add up, and are well worth the competitive edge you're building.

 

It's a controversial subject and open to discussion. Some will quickly open their wallets and some will wait to see how things pan out at the expense of others, not to mention that if this does prove itself in the long term, competition of a growing market will drive prices down for the patient ones. Your efforts and positive findings are appreciated, it's just that many need more proof before they jump, so no need to get butt hurt over it.

 

One of the other respondants to this thread has had MB experience for some time now, with excellent results in a class 8 truck. The technology has proven itself in professional racing for years, so there's quite a bit of history already.

The negative result posted above could be due to many factors. Lets say you installed MB bearings around the beginning of the year, got positive results, then in March/April the fuel economy went down. That doesn't say as much about the new bearings as it does the lack of experience in fuel economy testing. How about lousy weather, and the dumping of winter blend fuel on the market?

The only way to really tell if the new bearings have had an effect is to have a long term, pre-installation control period with no changes to the vehicle to compare with a long term post-installation period.

 

Here in the Southeastern USA we had a very mild winter that even the weather in March was better than in April. Not much of winter weather wise and only the winter blend effected the fuel economy here that appears the summer blend is just now working it's way to the pumps from the tank farms and pipelines.

Finding quality fuel in the southeast has been a problem since last September with the bio-fuel crap coming in that is horrible. I try to avoid Bio-diesel sold in the South that does not appear to have the same quality as sold in the midwest.

My MB bearings have over 100K miles on them and they roll just as good as they did the first day they WOWed me pulling up to the first stop sign back in June last year when I installed them.

I don't care if they believe me or not or even if they buy MB or not. It doesn't matter to me because I want to help those out that want it and would perfer the naysayers to just not buy MB or anything that has gained me fuel mileage. I can only share my own experience with what I have learned from that experience.

 

I am doing drive axle brakes and S-cam bushings, oil seal right now and my wheel bearing races still have cross-hatch pattern and they have over half a million miles on them. I guess the oil flowing over those rough cross-hatch lines is costing me thousands a year in lost mpg.

 

Imagine what the cross-hatch lines in each engine cyl is doing to your mpg!! If you polished them smooth you'd gain 1mpg. If the engine didn't have all that compression it would turn over a lot easier and definitely save mpg!

 

You will never know until you try it without those cross hatches, but that is your choice and please don't waste your money on MicroBlue.

Let me add that is some rough bearing races to be able to visually see cross hatches in them. I have never seen any like that? Would you mind posting some pictures with a brand name so maybe to help others to never use any of those?

Do square wheels roll better than round ones too?

I was after ceramic wheel bearings for a big truck that was almost impossible cost wise that even a simular size bearing in just ceramic hybrid (ceramic balls with steel races) was going to cost around $1800 each with 2 per wheel and 6 hubs that would be $21,600 just for tractor wheel bearings and who knows what full ceramic bearings would cost. These are for ball bearings and roller bearings would be even more expensive. Here is video from the racing bicycle world that shows the difference in the 3 bearing types by just spinning the wheels...

[video=youtube_share;q4Tc1U1Tg34]http://youtu.be/q4Tc1U1Tg34[/video]

Full Ceramic is races and balls are ceramic
Ceramic or Ceramic Hybrid is steel races with ceramic balls
Regular bearings are steel balls and races.

I have used ceramic bearings in go-kart racing and RC Cars that make a huge difference.

MicroBlue treated bearings are the closest thing economically to ceramic hybrid bearings as you can get if not equal to.

 

Off topic but I like using my ceramic knives in the kitchen better then the ss ones. Seems like they don't get dull but my other knives need sharpening every now and then.

Ceramic bearings are very pricy like Dice explained.