[Healeys] Front Hub Runout

[BJ8Healeys]

A few years ago I bought two new splined hubs ($175 each) from Gary Hemphill
at Healey Haven.  After installation of the hubs, the right front wheel
developed a chirp that was coming from brake rotor wobble intermittently
picking up a brake pad and dropping it as it rotated.  I had the rotor
turned, but the rotor wobble remained and was only cured when I installed
the original hub with the same bearings.  Hemphill inadvertently cc'd me on
an e-mail to a supplier and admitted that he had another hub on his desk
with the same problem.  That supplier told me later that he had not sold the
hub to Hemphill.
Hemphill refused to accept responsibility for the bad hub and never did
reimburse me or replace it, he just went out of business.  Good riddance.

Some of those hubs may still be around, and that might be your problem.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
AHCA Delegate at Large
Havelock, NC  



-----Original Message-----
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
sentenac.rw at gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 12:34 AM
To: Mike Tobin
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Front Hub Runout

It could be helpful to know what the history of your hub is.  If it is new,
it still might be faulty.  You tightened the bearings until they started to
bind and then backed off until just free.  You might try repeating that and
see if anything changes.

You might also try installing the disc and see if that forces a better
runout at the disc perimeter, which is what you are looking for.

-Roland
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:20:22 -0600, you wrote:

>All,Thanks to y'all I've gotten the calipers apart and together again.Now
I've run into a problem trying to fit the first one.It looks like I've maybe
an 1/8" of runout at the hub (measured at the edge of the hub flange  - I've
taken the disc off).I'm using new bearings and the races appear to have been
driven home.  I tightened the hub down without the shims like the book says
to make sure they're seated. The turning action of the hub is smooth.Any
suggestions as to where the runout could be coming from and how to check?The
archive mentions that sometimes the ends of the distance piece aren't really
parallel.
>Thanks Yet Again,Mike TobinTownsend, Montana
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