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Re: Front hub with spacer, no shims, and endplay

To: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Front hub with spacer, no shims, and endplay
From: James Feyrer <james.feyrer@Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:12:39 -0400
Charles & Peggy Robinson wrote:

 >   ER , ah, blush, oh shux, yer right.  You take spacers out 'til it
 > locks.  I had this nagging feeling about that post, heh.  Oh, well, I'm
 > a regisered OF.  I'll just call it a senior moment.  ;^)  Sorry.
 >

It happens to the best of us :-).

>   On my WW B you just tap the grease caps into place.  I expect it's the 
> same on DW cars.  For my WW caps, I made a tool to screw onto the cap 
> stud.  The tool is a 6" piece of allthread having the same thread as the 
> stud, with a long nut and a jam nut screwed onto one end.  I screw the 
> long nut onto the stud and use the appropriate method to pull or install 
> the cap.

I have wire wheels also, and the cap Moss sent me looks just like the 
item in the catalog and nothing like the tech tips describe.  It is a 
little metal semicircle with a square protrusion at the middle of the 
arc.  The Haynes manual picture looks the same.  I can see how you can 
shove it into the hub, but I am unclear how it keeps grease in unless 
its job is to plug up the hole used to install the split pin.  The tech 
tips all seem to describe a cap that sits over the hub nut.

Jim Feyrer
1968 MGB

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