Mike,
Did you get the bearings to seat all the way this time? Before you swap out
the whole housing, why not test fit it in the ground. If you discover the
problem is with one or some of your parts other than the housing, you won't
have done all that work for nothing.
Gerard
>I'm at the end of my rope on this one. I've been battling this hub face
>axle flange gap issue for months. Both sides, the right side is about
>3/16ths inch and the left about 1/32nd inch. I picked up an axle casing
>today that is definitely for disc wheel cars. It measures the same as
>the one that is in my car. Does the machined step that the bearing
>seats on have a different dimension when measured from the back plate
>mounting flange? I don't know yet. I am going to swap the axle casings
>out and try again. If that does not do it, time to grind a quarter inch
>ar so off the end of the axles. I replaced the bearings and seals
>yesterday in an attempt to stop the oil leak from the right side.
>Probably ruined the seal in the hub taking off so many times to shim it
>in an attempt to stop the oil leak. So I replaced everything and removed
>the shims. The machinist that pressed in the new seals and bearings
>said to paint the end of the axles with nail polish and install. When
>the axle is all the way in, tap it with a lead hammer. If the nail
>polish is disturbed, you are bottoming out. Guess what? the nail
>polish proved it is bottoming out on the pinion shaft! I'm confused by
>my car again. Steel wheel axle casing and steel wheel hubs and steel
>wheel axles, the axles bottom out. Huh?
>Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
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