AMC Eagle Den Forum
The Shop => Suspension, Steering, Brakes, Wheels & Tires => Topic started by: johnbendik on September 30, 2017, 05:54:33 PM
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After a long series of problems with my driver's side front wheel bearings, I have decided to break it down myself and try to find a machine shop to press new bearings in for me. I have been using Draekon's excellent post (http://forums.amceaglesden.com/index.php?topic=43620.msg339617#msg339617 (http://forums.amceaglesden.com/index.php?topic=43620.msg339617#msg339617) as a guide.
One of my problems seems to be that I am missing a couple of parts: the 'axle shaft-to-bearing spacer' and the 'axle shaft dust slinger'. There are items 18(d) and 19 in the illustration below, taken from the Eaglepedia:
(http://amceaglesden.com/guide/images/6/6a/Frontbearingfigure2.jpg).
I believe the parts were lost by the last shop I trusted to replace the wheel bearings. Perhaps their absence left some free play in the hub assembly that destroyed the newly-replaced wheel bearings? I don't know. But I know I want to include them when I put everything back together again.
Does anyone know where I could get these two parts (other than from another Eagle)? The pictures are pretty crude, but the spacer looks like some kind of split ring, and the dust-slinger like a fat washer with lip on the inside. Any information anyone has on these two parts would be much appreciated...
Thanks,
JB
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I don't recall those c-clip spacers when I did mine. The slingers are called deflector in other parts of EPedia. Part # changes slightly as well. Old # is 323 8217 , new # is J3238 217 . Cant understand why they do stuff like that . Now where do you find them ??????
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The slinger may be still stuck to the outer CV joint. Look there before you assume its lost.
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Nah, that was the first place I looked. I also checked the driveway where I did the removal, just in case.
I'm never THAT lucky...
JB