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Old 02-08-2025, 07:03 PM   #10
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While we're on the subject...

A Kansas-based company named Huyett supplies a huge selection of bearings, bushings, and fasteners of every description for a multitude of applications. They consider bushings and bearings to be fasteners... which spins my head around. Anyway, they weighed in on our question on their site:
Bearings and Bushings: The “Difference”

Many explanations will simply state that there is no difference because a bushing is a type of bearing. While this isn’t untrue, it is a surface-level answer because it invites the notion of, “if A is B and B is C, then A is C.” In other words, if bushings were a type of bearing, then subtypes of bushings would also have to be a derivative of a bearing, which isn’t true. Bearings are not the “parent” part.

Bushing is more of a generic term that catches most of the single-component members of this fastener family. Many bushings bear loads or allow for rotational movement, and many bearings reduce friction; all of these parts will alter the size of a bore. So why even distinguish between the two?

There are a few specific fasteners that are definitively a bushing or a bearing based on the definitions above. Beyond these few, the difference between a bushing and a bearing at a practical level is how it is used, not how it is designed. Since fastener manufacturers, distributors, and hardware stores cannot predict how you will use a part, their names for the fasteners are somewhat arbitrary.
https://www.huyett.com/blog/bushing-and-bearing-difference
Interesting, huh? Just out of curiosity, when I get a chance I'm going to email Huyett and ask them what they would term the Solution's application in M96 engines.

EDIT: Emailing them was a good idea. Unfortunately, I didn't anticipate that Huyett would have no email address. That's what you'd call "old school." I guess a website was leading-edge enough for them.
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