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On 30 Mar 2005 at 18:35, Russ Wolfe wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 16:03, John Jaranson wrote: > > I am putting Sophy's rear end back together and the seal/gasket sets > > that I picked up for the wheel end of the swingaxle tubes each have two > > (2) paper gaskets in the kit. All the pictures in my Bentley and > > Haynes show a single paper gasket between the bearing cover and the > > backing plate. Along with the o-rings and other bits in there. > > > > Where does the second paper gasket go? > > > Between the backing plate and the axle tube. I think there's a step in the housing that would require the inside gasket to have a hole about 1/4" larger in diameter there. Because of that step, the single gasket and O-ring actually seals everything. I'm just working from very old memory, however. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~