<div dir="ltr">Yes, I know the hubs are different - I have wires. The new bearings I have are good ones (though not 80 Quid!) and I won't be racing the car so they are probably fine. They came from Peter. <div><br></div><div>At the moment the car is on it's side in the garage. I wanted to put the wheels and suspension back on it so I can turn it upright and be able to roll it in and out of the garage during the sanding and paint prep. Anyway, point is, I can't really spin the wheels to check for the proper pre-load so maybe it would be best to put the suspension and wheels back on and wait until the paint is done to put in the new bearings, seals...etc. all around. That might become an OSHIT job when someone is here that knows what they are doing! ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!!<br>Jim </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:10 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:WeslakeMonza1330@aol.com" target="_blank">WeslakeMonza1330@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>First thing is to get decent bearings - I think I paid about £80 for a good
set which is many times the price of the rubbish the usual suspects sell.
You might want to get a spare spacer and measure their exact height - gives you
an option to remove small amounts on emery paper if you need a very slightly
shorter spacer to get the pre-load correct.</div>
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<div>Of course if you don't have inspection to worry about and plan on keeping
cornering speeds below 90 mph+ and top speeds below 120/121 mph you can probably
live with the cheaper bearings that never reduce all the free play.</div>
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<div>The old bearings you removed may be better than the cheap stuff you are
buying. </div>
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<div>Finally, the front hubs are different on steel wheels to wire spoked
wheels.</div>
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<div>Regards</div>
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<div>Weslake-Monza 1330</div><span class="">
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<div>In a message dated 08/02/2015 00:18:53 GMT Standard Time,
<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;BORDER-LEFT:blue 2px solid"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent" color="#000000" face="Arial">Any tips
or tricks to replacing front wheel bearings on my MKIII Midget??
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<div dir="ltr">Cheers!!<br>Jim
Johnson<br></div></div></div></font></blockquote></div></span></font></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Cheers!!<br>Jim Johnson<br><a href="http://www.highplainsyouthhockey.org" target="_blank">High Plains Youth Hockey</a><br><a href="http://www.DodgeCityTrailofFame.org" target="_blank">Dodge City Trail of Fame </a><br><a href="http://www.EJSSM.org" target="_blank">Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology</a><br><br><font color="black" face="arial"><font color="black" face="arial"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><font style="background-color:transparent" color="#000000" face="Arial"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><div><u>"<font size="3"><b>Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to
hell in such a way that they look forward to the
trip."</b></font></u></div>
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Churchill</b></font></div></font></font></font></font></font><br><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline"></div></div></div>
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