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Re: [Mgs] axle nut

To: Rick Lindsay <rolindsay@yahoo.com>,MGS <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] axle nut
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@mgaguru.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:37:45 -0500
At 01:02 PM 8/1/2008 -0700, Rick Lindsay wrote:
>....
>    Is the RH rear axle nut (wires) the same from the MGA to the '70 
> MGB?  Does the same socket fit both?  1-5/16"

No and no.  The entire hub desgn changed with introducion of the 
Salsbury (tube type) axle in late 1968,  The earlier nut is MUCH 
larger, 1-61/64-inch octagonal.

>   Is the RH axle nut on a '70 MGB a right-handed thread?
>....

Yup.  Any parts catalog shows same nut both sides for the later axle.
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