And isn't that one of the (many) reasons we prefer MGs to Triumphs, Bill?
{G}
Lawrie
----- Original Message -----
From: <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Front Wheel Bearing "End Float"
> 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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