That spacer being less than 42.8mm in my experience has shown to provide more play in the set up after the nut has been torqued to 360 ft. lbs.  All new spacers are all 42.8 mm long, maybe they made them that way for a reason.  I certainly have a pile of used ones that are less than 42.8 mm.  So….something wore them down and after installing new bearings and new spacers I get no rock from the wheel when trying to move it back and forth using the 12 and 6 o’clock hand positions on the wheel.

> On Jun 30, 2016, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:
> 
> Scott is right but missed one thing. The spacer does indeed simply transfer t=
> he force generated by the big axle nut from the outer bearing inner race to t=
> he inner bearing inner race. However, the length of the splined section of t=
> he stub axle is such that if the spacer is too short then the hub bottoms ou=
> t on the end of the splined section of the stub axle before everything else i=
> s brought up tight.
> 
> Frank states an absolute measurement for the spacer. My beef is the emphasis=
> on that absolute value. By his measure a 0.01 mm variance in length is reas=
> on to replace the spacer.=20

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