[Mgs] Follow up to MGA 1600 MkII front end suspension suspense

[PaulHunt73]

Are you and Barney singing off the same hymn-sheet?  What Barney describes sounds the same to me as the MGB - that is the inner races are held tightly between a the oil seal collar on the inner part of the stub axle and the clamping nut and washer, with spacer and shims between them.  Clamped like that - to between 40 and 70 ft lb on the MGB at least - the inners can't spin on the axle.  But I thought it had already been established that your version of the MGA isn't like that anyway.

If the oil seal collar is missing, i.e. the part that the oil seal lip runs on, then with the MGB system (again at least) you will never get correct assembly of hub, bearings and axle as that takes up 1/4" or more of the effective length of the stub axle and hence play in the assembly.

I also suggested that if the problem was only on one side, then carefully dismantle the other and compare components and dimensions.

PaulH.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  ... I don't really understand why the inner races can be so relatively loose. Because of the relative damage to the spindle, a noticeable wear on one side of the spindle especially on the outer bearings,  I would think that a slip fit inner race, even with axial compression, would allow potential spinning on the spindle causing wear similar to what I am seeing.
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