Daft question -been years since heavy involvement with minis - rear wheels on my coupe have been bodged and leave me with locked wheels if any attempt to tighten centre nuts (still drum braked ) - have replaced both outer CV joints - pillocks with hammers spreading threads over centre nuts give me the willies - is there supposed to be a spacer between wheel bearings in hub ? if so - where can I get them - or what is dimension? - does anybody have spare Imp choke lever ? - on and on we go !!!

regards -all -

yes there is ment to be a spacer inbetween the bearings, and comes as a matched set with the wheel bearings when new as they do vary slightly to take out dimensional tolerances,, I always keep my old ones as i have one upright which must be at bottom limit as when i fitted a new wheel bearing it was very slightly loose after tightening, so i measure and set them how i want them these days.

the space is seperate on taper and some roller bearings, some roller bearings have the shim built in! i did come across these once upon a time

the dimension of the spacer from memory is somwhere around 0.350"
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there seems to be a protruding lip on the inner face of one inner bearing which caused me to believe that the spacer was built in but tightening the centre nut seems to crush the bearings inwards and starts to lock the wheel - looks like a dose of trial and error could be coming on - bearings are ball bearings in this case - did fleetingly consider tapers but not in this case appropriate --

the bearings i came across which had the bearing built in had half on each bearing from memory, but that was ages ago, and i went taper as they do last that bit longer when doing track days etc.

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yep - just causes me to wonder???

Early bearings had a separate spacer between the inner races but later ones had extended inner races which make contact in the centre of the hub and no spacer is used.

Hmm - something definitely not right - sounds like pull it apart again and cogitate - Thanks fellas