Hi Bill,
Could be the vendor is doing you a favor there.
The original pre '65 splined hubs were very thin at the bottom of the KO
threads and the loads which can be generated with modern tires make the
situation even worse. I found this out the hard way :-(
I'm not sure what dimension the vendor has used but you may find that the
caps from a late BJ8 fit...although come to think of it the OD of the
bearing may be a little large for that.
BTW I have pulled off many a front hub which had no cap at all and the
bearings seemed to be just fine..
No cap may be the lesser of two weevils...
Michael Salter
100S (1955)
3000 Mk111(1965)
100 (1953)
AHX12 (1953)
Bugeye (1961)
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Bill
Sent: April 30, 2007 8:54 PM
To: list
Subject: wheel hub stub-dust cap
I put a new front hub stub on today that I purchased from one of our
regular vendors. When I went to insert the old dust cap found it will
not fit in the stub. The ID of the new stub is smaller than the 47
year old original stub so the cap cannot go into its place. The vendor
suggested I grind down the outside of the cap which I have done to make
it smaller,but now I am getting to the point where I do not want to
take anymore off the cap. Has anyone else run into this problem and if
so whats the answer. Will the new caps fit into these new hubs. When
I did the other front one last winter had no problem.
Bill Pollock
59 BN 4
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