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 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:
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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