Clutch release bearings

A clutch release bearing mounted about a slidable clutch actuating sleeve. The clutch release bearing comprises an inner race ring rotatable about the sleeve, a plurality of roller means, and an outer race ring. The outer race ring is mounted so as normally to be non-rotatable, by an annular dish-like washer secured to the sleeve and having radially extending spokes, the outer ends of which enter into an annular groove formed in the inner surface of the outer ring. The outer ends of the spokes are normally held securely by frictional fit within the groove but are flexed so as to disengage from one surface of the groove under axial actuation of the bearing to thereby permit the bearing as a whole to be self centerable about the central longitudinal axis of the sleeve.