Bud,
They'll be some good replies to this, I bet! Can't wait.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bud Osbourne" <abcoz@hky.com>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] wheel bearings
> Haven't been able to join in on this discussion, until now, for a few
> minutes (but, hey, I've put plenty of miles on my Spridget in the past
> few days).
> Anyway, I gotta say, with absolutely now offense meant, that you guys
> crack me up. How many days is it gonna take you to figure out that the
> engineers that designed that front spindle assembly had already
> forgotten more (about engineering) than ANY of you guys are likely to
> ever know on the subject. Given the nearly impossible economic
> constraints they were working under, they did a fantastic job. AND,
> believe me, if they didn't feel that spacer was ABSOLUTELY necessary; it
> sure as hell wouldn't have been in there!
> So, if you can't get the bloody thing set correctly, with the shims that
> are already on there; go out and get some more shims, set it the way the
> FACTORY WORKSHOP MANUAL tells you to, and go on your merry way with no
> worries about front wheel bearings. It's worked well for me for over
> forty years......
> The factory workshop manual and the factory special tuning manuals have
> an incredible wealth of information in them, which the vast majority of
> Spridget (as well as MGA & MGB) owners & "technicians" ALWAYS seems to
> overlook. One problem (with the shop manuals) is that the information
> is not particularly well placed/organized, and requires some serious
> studying in order to glean all of the information.
> Enjoy.
> Bud Osbourne
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