Spent a little time this week on Jennifer's car working on the hub and hub carrier.
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| This has always puzzled me, why did they put a vent hole directly across from the grease zerk? What happens is that the grease comes squirting out the top (where the screw is) and not out into the roller bearings where it should. Jennifer's car had mountains of grease on top of this hole, I've decided to plug them with a small screw in the hopes of being able to better lube the bearings in the future. |
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| here we have the two hub carriers, the one on the right is the recent E bay purchase and the one on the left is the OEM one that came on the car. I've posted the question on JL as to weather or not I should use the 'new' one. Sure looks flimsy compared to the 'original'. |
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| Very similar in this view. |
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| Installing the bearing races for the fulcrum arm, worked really well using a bolt with washers, brought the race in evenly without 'trauma'. |
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Checking the hub bearing end play, should be 1-3/1000" and this one measured a hair more than 1/1000.
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Cheers,
Lynn
That vent hole is a bit of a mystery. My hub had tons of grease up there too before I cleaned it. I have a photo somewhere. Will try and send that to you. Very yucky.
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