Been back down the garage and pulled the hub as well as removed the oil
seal from the old hub. The brand new 'ebay' rear bearing has lots more play
than the bearing I'm seeking to replace.
The bearings from Norm's page are #156 a pair including taxes and delivery.
That's one hundred and fifty six pounds sterling. The Moss price is about
#25 (not so sure if their price is tax inclusive or not).
Weslake-Monza 1330
In a message dated 23/03/2012 20:50:57 GMT Standard Time,
WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com writes:
Here in the UK it's MOT time for my Sprite soon and recently I discovered
a small amount of play in the wheel bearings on one side of the car.
As things turned out I left this until I bought some new discs so I can do
discs and bearings together.
Eventually I decided to replace the w/w hub as well.
Since the price of the hub easily exceeded my non-existent budget,
especially after a repair to the household heating/water boiler and an
unrelated
fridge replacement, I decided to use the no-name bearing kit I bought from
ebay some years ago.
After fitting the brake disc to the hub and installing the bearings (new
distance spacer) I was really disappointed to find there was loads of play in
the wheel - certainly more than I'd want to even think about driving the
car with. I wasn't entirely sure I'd got the front / outer bearing in the
right way round so I reversed it (no-name bearings don't have thrust marked)
and I couldn't see any difference. I'd already measured the new distance
spacer which was 1.497" whereas taking the old distance spacer from the old
hub revealed it was 1.500". So I fitted the longer distance spacer - no
difference.
So, while I'm fairly confident the rear/inner bearing is the correct way
round would it make enough difference to create a huge amount of play? I
suspect not.
Also my experiences in the past is that I've managed to get the bearings
to really bind but don't recall ever putting it together with a pile of
slack.
I'm loathe to go back down the garage tonight and reverse the rear bearing
only to find I was right the first time and discover the bearings are crap.
I've been to Norm's page:
_http://www.mgexperience.net/article/mg-midget-wheel-bearings.html_
(http://www.mgexperience.net/article/mg-midget-wheel-bearings.html) and it
seems that something is seriously wrong if I can't get
the bearings to go tight with even the too short spacer.
So - rear bearing wrong way round (can't even remember which way round it
went) or crap bearings?
Weslake-Monza 1330
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