Raymond Spherical Roller Bearing 19mm Bore – RA460-680

A spherical roller form lets this steer-axle bearing swivel slightly on its own axis, so it keeps carrying load without binding as the steering linkage moves through its arc and works around the misalignment built into a steer axle. Raymond sizes it with a 19 mm inner diameter, a 31.73 mm outer diameter, and a 14.22 mm width, machined in hardened steel to take the steering loads a reach truck puts through the axle.

It is cataloged for Raymond reach trucks, including the 7400, 7420, and 7440. A steer-axle bearing wears at its races and rolling surfaces over time, and as it wears the steering develops play, wanders off center, and grows noisy, which is the signal to replace it before the looseness reaches the rest of the linkage.

Match the bore and outer diameter to the bearing coming out, since a spherical bearing has to seat exactly in its housing and on its shaft to self-align the way the steer axle needs.