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Your Last Post (hopefully) has been reported Mick - thanks for the comments. It WAS indeed incorrect assembly as I stated ages ago.......and it's hard for any of us to diagnose problems when given incorrect and misleading information. (1/8" wide mark in brake drum etc..) We do our best .... Fo...

It's not 'a bit tedious' - it's much worse than that. Just build the hubs as BMC intended and it will be fine. Well, I'll leave my posts intact for openminded people who are prepared to embrace new perspectives and think out-of-the-box to see where it might lead. However.... What a horrible, smarmy...

bmcecosse wrote:It's not 'a bit tedious' - it's much worse than that. Just build the hubs as BMC intended and it will be fine.

I see Rob Thomas has deleted all his posts from the thread. I wonder why?

well I wasn't going to get involved in this, has become a bit tedious ,but iv'e used instant gasket cement on mine for years,never had a wet brake drum. Well, another post designed to depress and deflate :). I'm very sorry you find the topic tedious. I had finished the thread until Norm (aka Kerr) ...

Hmmm....I'll check this out on my axle later. Thanks for your thoughts on this. I believe the ring is held on by the nuts....not totally sure though at the moment.....not had a backplate off for a good while.

Somebody is bound to ask or suggest sooner or later - what about....been away from England a long time....ends in "...ite"....a suitable flexible sealant instead of the gasket. It would "give" until the flange stopped moving and came to rest on the bearing, then dry and, hopefull...

Mick Just checked my hubs and Im wrong here :oops: as the gasket finishes short of the bearing. I do have grooved type on mine with an O ring... must be confusing it with my MG axles without O rings! I guess the sure way to get the gasket thickness right is to bolt it up lightly without a gasket an...

Mick Ive seen quite a few original gaskets over the years and can assure you that they are meant to go between the bearing and halfshaft face...in fact this is the whole basis of this gasket seal. I think that the O ring helps as if the bearing gets slightly loose in the housing then oil can creep ...

Nick Sorry I have to disagree with you about the gasket thickness. The gasket also fits between the bearing and the half shaft flange not clear of it as shown on your drawing....so lets exaggerate hugely and say you used a 2mm thick gasket ... the bearing would still be retained tightly as designed...

Mick, Please post a sketch of what you are trying to say. Far too many words and it is easy for the reader to get lost. That's why I made that sketch, based on the photos I had from my rebuild, to try and make what you were saying clear to myself. I would like to see what it is that I have missed /...

The fingers (halfshaft flange) and the thumb (bearing carrier) are fixed together (palm of hand) and hold the bread (bearing) solidly. If the fingers don't pull down enough to grab the top piece of bread (Arthritis?) then the bread and filling can flop about between finger and thumb. Since the brea...

Anyway, the gasket needs, IIRC, to be just enough to bridge the gap between the black bearing carrier and the blue halfshaft or else the red bearing has a space to move sideways. I recall that the bearing, once pressed into position, sits slightly proud of the carrier and that the paper gasket hold...

Totally irritating in fact....I spend time sharing information about issues I've experienced with a Moggie, and all I get told is that it can't happen. What? I'm making it up? No. It can happen. What esle explains the fact that the polished area in the brake drum is wider than the shoe by the same a...

I can assure you - rear hubs DO NOT slide in and out......... There's something wrong with the assembly if that happens. Yes, obviously something wrong the assembly, but what? And why? I'm not sure actually if you mean something wrong with the assembled unit, or the way in which the components were...

Update....after a thought I had.... The width of the shiny area inside the brake drums which were on the axle to which I refer, which gets polished by the brake shoes, is wider than the brake shoes....by about an eighth of an inch. Isn't this exciting :)? Seriously, try the push-pull check on your b...

I don't have a Morris axle so I can only refer to the manual. 1) Hub and bearing assembly goes onto axle. (which is STEPPED for the hub/bearing to locate against) 2) Then washer/locknut is fitted. And so, unless I've missed something, these components are attached and hub should spin but can not fa...

The rear hub nut and lock washer stops your rear wheels sliding in and out. You are overthinking things! No it doesn't, and no I'm not. I have an axle on which the hubs slide in and out. The nuts were extremely tight and the lockwashers perfectly bent up. So your comment is not true. The questions ...

Long post....long day. It seems that you get problems with the rear hubs, or you don't. Or you might have a problem, but don't know it. Confused? Join the club. I have a 5.37 diff which I'd only use as a temporary measure if all my other diffs failed. It's in an excellent axle casing so I decided to...

why not just clean out the holes and use copper grease upon re-assembly........... :D Why not try something different and see if it works out better? Sometimes an idea can be applied in other areas....for example the rear axle differential holes and studs.....grrrr! I had a whale of a time trying t...

Hi all! I just saw two hours of my life go down the pan yet again trying to get to the thermostat. As reported many times here, the alloy cover reacts with the three steel studs and gets well and truly stuck to them. Eventually I got the cover off in tact, and decided to try something new. Regular p...