I'm not the most adept at measuring but if it's of any help, I have a
spare used stub axle and hub from an '85 "Transporter" I can measure.

Neil.

On 6/2/15, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

....

> On a used stub axle and hub, when hub installed on axle, but not pressed
> down by nut, just pressed on by hand, space between the surfaces that the
> inner bearing and the outer bearing lie against measures 76.1 mm.
>
> To be clear, the hub is pushed down until it fetches up on the end of the
> splines.
>
> So you have, nominally, 2.7 mm of room before the hub bottoms out on the end
> of the splines on the stub axle.

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Neil n

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