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I'm using only one gasket on the bearing housing side. The axle seal and small o-ring are correctly installed. I reversed the orientation of the large o-ring and the paper gasket and both sides continued to drip. I removed one side and noticed the paper gasket got cut by the bearing housing, so this is no improvement. However, during disassembly I noticed the energizing spring had popped off the U shaped seal (both sides), and the third time the spring had somehow gotten bent. I must be assembling the bearing cover in such a way as to cock the inside lip? This would certainly allow the oil pass by and get to the weep hole. I carefully reassembled (w/o the mangled energizer) and the drip appears to have stopped. I will need more gaskets and a spring, so another day lost, Parma coming up! Yikes. Peter Parker '66 Square; Phillip Portland, OR > The question I have is where to put the paper gasket (kit comes with two) in > relation to the backing plate and the large bearing O.D. o-ring. If I > remember correctly, when I assembled it, I used one gasket on the bearing > cover, with the o-ring up against the bearing housing. But because the > gasket I.D. matches the bearing O.D., the gasket gets partly folded into the > bearing cover chamfer (intended for the o-ring). It sounds like I put the > o-ring on the wrong side of the gasket, but at the time this didn't seem > right. I think they came from the factory the way you did it, with the paper gasket pressed backwards into that triangular cavity that seems like it was destined for an O-ring. I have done them the other way, with the O-ring in the cavity and that also seemed to work just fine. Did you install the other paper gasket on the inside face of the brake backing plate? Did you install a new small O-ring? Is your new oil seal installed with the lip facing in? (It should face in.) ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/