Alistair,

Yes, no doubt. We are probably the last three members left--only David, you
and me now.  Maybe BenT to make four.  Call this the "last straw thread."

Pictures? Who needs stinkin' pictures when you can read text and visualize
complex mechanical systems and concepts!!! Or not.

Keeps your brain working as you get older. I hope so anyway.

Even my son with his '87 Westy won't join this group, he's on the FB. Just
as well or I'd probably embarrass him.

I wish it was Friday, I have a bit of a surprise for the mods.  Stay tuned.

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Alistair Bell
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 6:32 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Rear axle torque specs?

Playing with the spare set of hubs, housings, and stub axles in the mess I
call my workshop, I notice the radial play of the hub on the stub axle
diminishes as the hub fetches up against the ramps at the end of the grooves
in the stub axle.

I suppose I should assemble a unit minus the bearing housing and see if the
hub comes up onto the ramps. But I can't be bothered pressing on, then off,
the bearings.

Hey Stuart, did I push more members to Facebook?

:-)

Alistair

> On Jun 3, 2015, at 12:58 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>
> At 01:02 PM 6/3/2015, OlRivrRat wrote:
>>        AnyOne care to discuss just what might cause the Spacer to
>> Wear Shorter ~
>
> Whatever moves against another surface will wear, evenly or with one
> sacrificial to the other (paradixically, the harder surface tends to
> sacrifice to the softer).  I  don't see the spacer as being in any
> particular danger unless its composition is such that it moves and
> wears preferentially to everything else in the assembly, which could
> be.  Even so, I think that the splines getting beaten up on axle and
> hub will be the major issue, not longitudinal wear.  Ideally those
> splines would exist only as a safety backup, but whether or not that
> applies here impact loading on them has to be kept to a minimum so
> they don't beat each other out of shape. leading to an accelerating
> cycle of increasing clearances leading to increased impact loads.  It
> would be simpler if they were loaded only in one direction, but they
> have to handle decelerating and reverse-gear loads as well.
>
> Yours,
> David