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[Rich's trailer]

Are there different ones for different aged mini, or different models?

Reason is I've asked a supplier to stand behind their product, and take them back if they are tight once installed.
In return they have asked me to provide the full car registration for my vehicle, which I can't do as it's a trailer .

The taper roller bearings appear to be generic for all minis but I just wanted to be sure before I get back to them..

So....?

Also should the mini hub have have a marking or part No. that shows it to be geniune?

[sledgehammer]

One side of my rears were ball bearings - not taper roller

I changed them to taper roller ones , and all is good

I assumed all mini rears were taper - but assumption is the mother of all -----

Edited by sledgehammer, 08 April 2013 - 06:24 PM.

[Dan]

Ball bearings were standard on all non-Cooper S (and possibly 1275GT) models until 1984, taper rollers were fitted to all others. In 1996 there was a warranty upgrade (possibly even a recall I seem to remember) to add an extra o-ring behind the bearings on Sportspack cars, and 13" wheel cars used the bearings with extra seals from then on. Hubs are all essentially the same and generally hard parts don't have stamped part numbers, many have casting tool numbers but I don't think the hubs do.

Edited by Dan, 08 April 2013 - 07:01 PM.

[Rich's trailer]

okay, so my hubs are probably just non-cooper S mini hubs (as they orginally had the ball bearing & spacer arrangment).

[Dan]

The hubs are all pretty much the same (some have two retaining screw holes, some only one), whatever they were fitted to. Only the bearings are different.