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I’m looking for some guidance/advice on how to deal with a couple of issues I have come up against while going through my geared hub. This is the first time I have gotten into a geared hub, so I'm still in the learning phase.
Issue 1: On the drive gear shims between the retainer and hub body, no where in the manuals can I find anything about using a sealant between the retainer/shim/hub.
So are the shims self sealing? Should I use some type of sealant? I realize that I have to account for any sealant in the endplay measurements. The only sealant the manuals mention is to use pipe sealant on the bolts.
Issue2: The outer bearing spacer on the spindle seems to me to be installed backwards. Looking through the manuals, it shows the inner spacer having the larger diameter shoulder towards the gear and the smaller end towards the bearing. The manual shows the outer spacer as a solid piece, but the spacer on mine is like the inner one and has a large diameter side and a small side. No where that I can find, in the manual does it describe how to orientate the spacers other than the drawings. On my outer spacer the small side was towards the gear and the large side towards the bearing. When I flip the spacer the bearing surfaces seem to size up better to each other than the way it was. I guess so long as it is spacing things correctly and not rubbing on anything it is OK as is, but I wanted to ask.
Photo of how outer spacer was.
![DSC00862Post.jpg DSC00862Post.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/526/526720-55f18dc0e131c789d3c1936306aa2272.jpg)
Photo of how I think the outer spacer should be.
Manual schematic of the spindle assembly. In the diagram you can see the inner spacer ( 8 ) is stepped but the outer one (10) looks uniform.
Photo of inner spacer showing the large diameter side against the gear.
Any info someone may have would be appreciated.
Thanx
Fred
Issue 1: On the drive gear shims between the retainer and hub body, no where in the manuals can I find anything about using a sealant between the retainer/shim/hub.
![DSC00865post.jpg DSC00865post.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/526/526719-82a8a164235ba05381a78ed882209457.jpg)
So are the shims self sealing? Should I use some type of sealant? I realize that I have to account for any sealant in the endplay measurements. The only sealant the manuals mention is to use pipe sealant on the bolts.
Issue2: The outer bearing spacer on the spindle seems to me to be installed backwards. Looking through the manuals, it shows the inner spacer having the larger diameter shoulder towards the gear and the smaller end towards the bearing. The manual shows the outer spacer as a solid piece, but the spacer on mine is like the inner one and has a large diameter side and a small side. No where that I can find, in the manual does it describe how to orientate the spacers other than the drawings. On my outer spacer the small side was towards the gear and the large side towards the bearing. When I flip the spacer the bearing surfaces seem to size up better to each other than the way it was. I guess so long as it is spacing things correctly and not rubbing on anything it is OK as is, but I wanted to ask.
Photo of how outer spacer was.
![DSC00862Post.jpg DSC00862Post.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/526/526720-55f18dc0e131c789d3c1936306aa2272.jpg)
Photo of how I think the outer spacer should be.
![DSC00863Post.jpg DSC00863Post.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/526/526721-bb3f14438897f99e61e601f870071122.jpg)
Manual schematic of the spindle assembly. In the diagram you can see the inner spacer ( 8 ) is stepped but the outer one (10) looks uniform.
![Capture2.JPG Capture2.JPG](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/526/526722-d0c34010a407da6de83555106cbc17a8.jpg)
Photo of inner spacer showing the large diameter side against the gear.
![DSC00864post.jpg DSC00864post.jpg](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/data/attachments/526/526723-d321aa300681f1026405241fd754291f.jpg)
Any info someone may have would be appreciated.
Thanx
Fred
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