Got the other oil seal and the thicker spacer in the mail today. As this new spacer is only 0.002" thicker than the one I used to determine the endfloat and that one seemed to give an endfloat of something indistinguishable from zero, I carefully measured the endfloat with the new spacer (0.150" thick). …
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The one completed hub begs to be assembled. There are a number of steps involved to correctly complete this job. First is to create a level working environment. This is somewhat easy for me, as the car hoist I have is adjustable at the four corners. I already had the chassis levelled out, so the only thing needed was …
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With a new inner oil seal delivered, completing one of the rear hubs was indeed a quick job. Pressing in the oil seal, but now making sure it was straight!

This completes one rear hub. To complete the other one I'm waiting on the (extra thick) spacer and another inner oil seal.

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Got one inner oil seal delivered today out of the two ordered, so decided to quickly press that in the rear hub waiting for it. Too quickly it turned out; I pressed it in while it was not lining up exactly with the opening apparently because it bent.

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With all parts galvanized, a next step can be taken in building up the rear hubs. I can't complete the rear hubs completely because a spacer thickness needs to be determined to get the necessary endfloat in the hubs. Starting by putting the rear hub in a vice…

…and greasing up the bearing.

After placing the …

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