BMW Center bearing compatibility With WL

[Aalbloshi]

hey Guys, Does anyone knows Which center Bearing Of BMW is Compatible with the Statesman WL Center Bearing?

Realigned The Drive Shaft and Replaced the shaft bearing because of the Broken Rubber For the 4th Time Now I’m Considering A BMW one Because Some people told me to Replace it with the BMW one

 

[lout]

does your car have independent rear suspension
ensure centre bearing is installed correctly
as it is installed different for solid rear axle
and i only use spicer centres

 

[Aalbloshi]

does your car have independent rear suspension
ensure centre bearing is installed correctly
as it is installed different for solid rear axle
and i only use spicer centres

Yes the rear suspensions are independent , And I know A good Mechanic who Works on my Car he replaced the Center bearing 2 times But this time i Went To a different mechanic He Specifically Works on GM vehicle He replaced the Shaft Bearing Infront of me With all precautions but after like 2 weeks the rubber got broken again

And i Live In Saudi Arabia, So it’s kinda Hard to Get a genuine one here, btw How Much does it cost for a genuine Center bearing out there?

 

[lout]

 

[Aalbloshi]

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Oh That’s Kinda expensive to me, let’s see

 

[DavesSV6Tonner]

Are you sure the problem is the drive shaft centre bearing. Sounds more like a missing centering bush in the yoke is causing the rubber dohnut coupling to flog out in short order. My mechanic told me the rubber dohnut coupling is the same as used on BMW. I have never heard of the Holden driveshaft centre bearing being the same as a BMW unit.

 

[vc commodore]

I'd be digging deeper to find out why it is breaking them, rather than throwing more at it...

EDIT: https://forums.justcommodores.com.a...-replaced-2-times-again-somehow-broke.302754/

Stuffing another 2 in a 8 days says, there is problems with the tailshaft...I'd suggest going to somewhere that deals with tailshafts to get it sorted, otherwise you are throwing money down the toilet

 

[Immortality]

Maybe replace the whole tailshaft.

Any weird vibrations when driving it? Any obvious marks where it might have been hit by something?

 

[Fu Manchu]

Spicers have a pretty good data base on drive shaft components. It’s where I found that Jeep Grand Cherokee shares some drive shaft parts with VY-VZ. Also Ford Territory shares some parts with Adventra.

https://www.hardyspicer.com.au/driveshafts/centre-bearings/

 

[Pollushon]

Commodores including W series of that vintage use an offset centre bearing, pretty much every Bimmer I'm aware of is centred and the flex discs are also quite different (BMW are smaller, using the same disc across most models). In your position I'd go for a reco prop shaft, as above, there's something very wrong with yours to be behaving this way