Mr. Squirrel, how long have you owned your Westy and not noticed that ?  It's the speedometer cable drive connection !  Does not all car manufacturers drive their speedo cables with the front LH wheel ?

On 2012-08-27, at 8:18 PM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:

> On my 1984 2WD, the grease cap on the driver's side front wheel has a
> little nipple thing sticking out of the center of the cap. But there's
> nothing like that on the passenger side. A bit of assymmetry that caught
> my eye.

Cheers,    

Frank Condelli
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