In a message dated 6/01/00 1:28:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:
> Putting so much torque on the hub nut then makes the
> nut, bearing bodies, stub-axle and cup & shims essentially one big-assed
> axle piece. I've seen some people blow off the shim & cup combo and have
> done it myself in the past. BAD MOVE. You wind up riding on a stub-axle
> about 2/3 the diameter the car needs and can easily damage the entire
> assembly by hitting a defect in the driving surface the wrong way.
Only one thing wrong with that statement - Triumph uses taper roller bearings
on a stub axle that is smaller than the MG one, I believe, and does it
without spacers - you set end float with the nut and split pin it to suit.
Bill S.
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