Front suspension - Hubs

Whilst the engine is with AK I have started to put a few bits back together like wheel hubs, front discs and uprights.

Take one wheel hub

Select appropriate race from rebuild kit.

Insert in right place and tap in. This is an outer one so I won't be putting bearing rollers in until I'm ready to fit to upright on car

Repeat for inner race but this can have rollers and oil seal fitted.

A few taps with bearing drift or appropriately sized off cut of tube stock from neighbour's garage and all seated down.

Rollers fully greased up for placing in race - which equally is well smeared with bearing grease.

One seal soaked overnight in oil. Not sure why this is necessary for a plastic and spring unit. I'm sure that was for the old leather style but can't do any harm.

And insert

This seal actually seals around outer lip on upright so it doesn't sit right down on bearing. All the slack will be taken up when it's fitted onto the stub axle and the correct float applied.

Repeat for other side.

Brake discs have also been loosely fitted. covering them in next entry.

Rear hubs, front callipers

I have been undecided about whether to send rear hubs off for refurb or do myself. There are some relative complexities when putting bearings in to ensure the correct amount of float - i.e. play in the bearings to ensure they are running at optimal pressure, not too tight or loose.
There's videos on youtube showing how and plenty documented too.

I looked at costing up all the parts for the bearings etc to do the refurb and realised it was going to be cheaper to send to Wards to get a better result! The final thing that did it was whilst it took alot of thumping just to free one hub from it's bearings I then I discovered that someone in the past had clearly mashed one of the wheel studs and instead of replacing with another stud, had welded a bold through from the other side of the hub!

I can't imagine what this did to the balance of the rotating assembly but in the end speaking to Ward's they could resolve relatively easily...

Given that I would be sending off to Wards I sent the front callipers too.