First, thanks to those of you who helped me with my last posting.
I am desperately trying to put my 72B back together before first snowfall.
Everything was progressing nicely when I went to reinstall the front hubs
(wire wheel type). Following the moss catalog instructions for hub
installationby the dial-gauge impaired, I oiled up the new bearings and
assembled the hub with the shims that where there when I took it apart. With
nut torqued down the wheel was hard to turn. So I added a few more shims.
Still hard to turn. So
I added several more shims (all the shims I had (a variety of sizes). Still
hard to turn.
In all previous hub pullings I have done (on other cars), I put everthing back
(including bearings) just as I found it with no apparent ill effects. I find it
hard to believe that new bearings would require so many more shims. I should
add that I did not put the new races in the hub (old ones looked fine), What's
going on? Is this moss method reliable? If I have to put in new races can this
be done without a press (perhaps with a seal driver)?
Thanks,
Jeff Lewis
'72B
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