330 2+2 rear axle

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T-Spoon
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330 2+2 rear axle

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I am in the process of checking various items on my car and found what seemed to be an excessive amount to end float in the rear hubs. With a dial indicator I measured .012" on the right side of the vehicle and .030" on the left side. When I removed the axle nut and washer I found a spacer that does not appear on the exploded view diagram.
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Is this arrangement normal? If so I plan to face the spacer off to reduce the float to some number I am not sure about yet. BTW, when I remove it and start to draw up the nut, I can feel it dragging like maybe the bearing is being side loaded etc.
Tyler Schilling

1963 250 GTE rebodied as SWB Cal Spyder
John Vardanian
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Re: 330 2+2 rear axle

Post by John Vardanian »

Tyler, it's been a long time since I took this picture of my axle hardware, but take a look at the second quadrant of this picture and you'll see a couple of washers that look like yours. Hopefully someone else can give you a more difinitive answer.

john
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T-Spoon
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Re: 330 2+2 rear axle

Post by T-Spoon »

John,

Thanks for posting the picture. Those washer / spacers do look similar.

Tyler
Tyler Schilling

1963 250 GTE rebodied as SWB Cal Spyder
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