Thanks Alistair,
Beautiful write-up, as usual.  So on one read, sounds like Bentley (and
Haynes) is wrong and that spacer does NOT come out through the bearing.
But you're saying that you CAN get a drift to the INNER bearing outer race
by shoving the spacer to the side.  I'll try that tomorrow, I'm much too
full of Tequila to touch any of it tonight.  Thanks again ...

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> maybe my blog post will help
>
>
> http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/vanagon-rear-wheel-bearing-replacement/
>
> good luck
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 2012-09-29, at 6:04 PM, Gene P wrote:
>
> > I have the bearing housing on the bench, looking to disassemble to clean
> > and repack.  Bentley 42.4-5 says "remove outer bearing inner race and
> then
> > spacer".  Inner race slides out, but spacer does not.  I have it cleaned
> up
> > an it looks clearly like the spacer is too wide (diameter) to slide
> through
> > that outer bearing.  And of course, absolutely too wide to clear inner
> > bearing.  Since you can't get a drift in to knock out either bearing with
> > the spacer there, how does it come apart?
> >
> > This seems like a dumb question but I just don't see it.  What am I
> missing?
> >
> > Thanks for any help...
>
>