(MBBO#05 Class 1) Radioactive Heap '65 Stingray
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As far as I know they are the original bearings, they came with the bike when I bought it in project form. All the parts are there and assembled correctly. I'll monkey around with it a little more and if I can't get it sorted out I'll try some bearings I have from another old Schwinn.
Stop lying Muttley! OK, so I didn't lie, I was just mistaken. The bearings were in upside down.
Stop laughing..............please? How could this happen you may ask? Well, I've never done bearings on one of these before so I assembled it the EXACT SAME WAY as the fork in the Fair Lady parts bike I took apart. No wonder that thing was in such good shape, when someone 'serviced' it years ago they put it back together incorrectly and probably just gave up and parked it. Luckily I'm not the type who likes to be told 'no'.......... AKA a pigheaded SOB so I wasn't about to throw in the towel. I did think it was strange that the bearings didn't sit down over the races when I pulled that Fair Lady apart but I figured that it was supposed to work that way once it was tightened up........WRONG. Muchas gracias to Señor Odder for the above diagram, all systems are go as of this moment. Tomorrow I'll get it cleaned/polished/waxed, then all that's left to do is make the license plate mounts.
All clean........................
The Renaissance Man
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Very clean, looks great!
El fine'?
Not quite finished yet, I still have a couple of small details to get done.
Looks great!
Glad you found the problem!
Luke.
Glad you found the problem!
Luke.
This is a great looking Stingray.
very nice 
Fast looking ride!! Those bars are awesome. Classic muscle at its best![emoji106]
