Ed, it's the spindle that's different size, so the ID is different. OD is the same on all front wheel bearings.
On 2010-10-21, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > There seems to be only one brake disc for all '80 to '85 model years, = > but more than one wheel bearing style (up to some time in '83, and then = > from mid '83 on.) I'm wondering why the same disc could house two = > different wheel bearings. > > I also noticed that the Bus Depot seems to list different chassis = > numbers that correspond with the mid-year change of wheel bearings- they = > list the same month and year, but different chassis numbers. It would = > seem that if you're ordering early front wheel bearings from them, you = > might want to cross reference with another vendor to see whether to = > order early or late.
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