[tcb] Re: Warning - Technical Question

  • From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 19:38:10 -0600

If letting Mark do it is an option, I'd let Mark do it.

 

 

 

From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ronnie Hughes
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 7:09 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Warning - Technical Question

 

Ok if you are this far, you read the disclaimer.

 

My 1970 bus has a scraping noise coming from the rear wheel.  I can put on
the brake and it stops.  So last weekend I pulled the drum expecting to see
something loose in the brakes.  What I found was the spacer ring appears to
be rubbing on the back of the drum.  Both surfaces were very shiny like they
were rubbing.  I pulled the oil seal and didn't see anything special.

 

So I looked on the bus depot and wolfsburg west websites and they don't show
a spacer ring and no p/n's.  My bently and haynes manuals both show the
spacer.

 

1.  Does the spacer rotate with the drum?

2.  Does the spacer push against the bearing?

3.  What's the spacer for?

 

Looks like I'm heading to pulling the rear bearing housing and replacing the
bearings and seals.  Reading the manual this looks a pretty big project.
What do you think?  Run it until it explodes?  Try to tear down the bearing
housing?  Let Mark do it?  What special tools will I need?

 

Any advice is appreciated.

 

Ronnie

 

 

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