Hey all!

Replacing my front rotors, inner and outer bearings, races and grease seals on my 83. The races have been installed all the way against their stops, and I am attempting to install the new rotor/hub over the inner bearing and the axle. For some reason I am about a half an inch to an inch OUT on the assembly, yet the inner race is fully inserted/installed. This has to be something so VERY stupid, but I want to make sure. The lip on the axle/spindle is what appears to be hitting the back of the inner bearing, yet sitting a good way's out from where it needs to sit. Thanks for any insight/help guys.

 

Sidenote: is the inner bearing supposed to sit between the two lips on the axle/spindle? They are the only two on the axle and the are nearest the backplate.

 

Are you sure the rotors don't have bearings already built in?

 

You might want to post pics of the bearing/race installation and the issue you are
having. From your description its hard to tell what the issue may be,

I don't understand installing "over the inner bearing and axle". The bearings should both
be in the rotor against the races with the rear grease seal holding the rear bearing captive in the rotor.

 

1st thing to check is that you have correct bearings both inner and outer. I always test fit bearings to spindle before packing them with grease. Pull inner bearing out of hub and fit on spindle,should be snug,but go on. Same for outer.The lip you're talking about is where the grease seal lip rides. Dumb question? Correct seal,bearing,race installed correctly?

 

You have an 85 from whats in your profile. Maybe you got the small spindle bearings and not the larger spindle bearings. Or you car somehow has small spindles? Just reaching here.

 

He references an 83 in op... OP, compare all the parts you bought with the ones you removed. Match bearing to bearing etc... set old new/rotors side by side and be certain they're the same. If there's a mismatch you will see it. Post some pics of what you have.