101 Hub reconditioning - HowTo.

You can apply the same procedure to Series hubs, the only difference being that there is no circlip, it's a felt washer, castleated nut, and split pin. Oh, and series wheels only have 5 nuts, not 6

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This is how it looks. Leaks everywhere

The first stage is to remove everything, and clean everything thoroughly. This is what it looks like after cleaning, and brakes refitted. Much better than that black sludge everwhere. The second pic is a closeup of the slave cylinder

These are the parts you will need before reassembling the hub. You should have changed the seal on the hub as well by now.
They are, (front to back) Bearing, circlip, shim, hub nut, lock washer, hub nut, thrust washer

Ok, the hub is now on. Make sure that the rear seal is fully onto the stub axle

Pack with grease behind, and insert the outer bearing

Pack the front with grease (if you're filling with EP90, then you don't need the grease!)

Put on the keyed thrust washer

Put on the first nut

Tighten the nut. Note the use of Plumbers Stilsons. Don't use a hammer and chisel. You should tighten the nut fairly well, in order to seat the bearings, and then back of 1/6th of a turn (1 flat) The nut will now be ever so slightly loose, and the hub should have a tiny bit of movement. Don't worry about this

Put on the lock washer

Put on the second nut

Now, tighten the second nut up against the lock washer. After this, the hub should not exhibit any movement, and should be free to turn, without noise

Bang over the lock washer, to stop things coming undone.

The driveflange and gasket. I always use some Hermatite Red (Red gasket sealant) with this, just to stop leaks. You can use instant gasket if you want. Same effect.

The gasket in place, with sealant on both sides

Putting the driveflange on. You will have to work it on, in order to stop the halfshaft dissapearing into the flange. There is a thread in the end of it to hoik it out again, but I have no idea what bolt you should use

 

Put the shim back - with new bearings/cv joints etc you may need to reshim.

And put the circlip back

Do up the flange bolts. Yes, I've been respraying things.

And put the hub cap back on (this it the back one, BTW)

New Drum, old drum. That's what you think. The left one has been resprayed, that's all

Looking nice now (yes, this is the back again)

And finally, the wheel

There. Isn't that nice?