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Title: NG3 bearings and seals
Post by: BDA on Friday,April 06, 2018, 09:54:21 AM

I'm planning on rebuilding my NG3 sometime in the future and want to collect the bearings and seals in advance (I'm hoping to get synchros from Alpine-America). Does anybody here have a list of bearings and seals for the NG3?

Title: Re: NG3 bearings and seals
Post by: jbcollier on Friday,April 06, 2018, 01:31:28 PM

Service manual here:

http://www.lotus-europa.com/manuals/misc/MRBVNG.pdf

Might be a couple of off-the-shelf bearings in there but not many.

Title: Re: NG3 bearings and seals
Post by: BDA on Friday,April 06, 2018, 03:18:42 PM

Thanks, JB. I have the Renault manual NG manual. I thought bearings were standard. Do you think it has proprietary bearings?

Title: Re: NG3 bearings and seals
Post by: jbcollier on Friday,April 06, 2018, 03:29:07 PM

I can't comment on the NG3 but the 395 (similar but smaller) has no off the shelf bearings.

Title: Re: NG3 bearings and seals
Post by: Certified Lotus on Friday,April 06, 2018, 04:06:50 PM

Try www.123bearings.com They had the most obscure bearing for the 352 Transaxle in stock.

Title: Re: NG3 bearings and seals
Post by: BDA on Friday,April 06, 2018, 04:43:54 PM

Thanks, Certified. I'll bookmark them. It will be a while before I get into this project. I was hoping that someone had a list so I wouldn't have to wait till I took the tranny apart before I ordered them.

Title: Re: NG3 bearings and seals
Post by: surfguitar58 on Friday,April 06, 2018, 09:57:11 PM

Quote from: Certified Lotus on Friday,April 06, 2018, 04:06:50 PM

Try www.123bearings.com They had the most obscure bearing for the 352 Transaxle in stock.

Also try http://www.consbrgs.com/mobile/ they have a cross reference with most mfgrs part numbers.

Title: Re: NG3 bearings and seals
Post by: BDA on Saturday,April 07, 2018, 06:32:57 AM

Thanks, Surf! It's good to have more than one supplier!