I'm not the most adept at measuring but if it's of any help, I have a spare used stub axle and hub from an '85 "Transporter" I can measure. Neil. On 6/2/15, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: .... > On a used stub axle and hub, when hub installed on axle, but not pressed > down by nut, just pressed on by hand, space between the surfaces that the > inner bearing and the outer bearing lie against measures 76.1 mm. > > To be clear, the hub is pushed down until it fetches up on the end of the > splines. > > So you have, nominally, 2.7 mm of room before the hub bottoms out on the end > of the splines on the stub axle.
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