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[1293clubby]

am currently changing my front wheel bearing on standard set up disk braked mini. According to haynes manual i should have a spacer between the inner bearing and the inner lip/shoulder of the drive shaft. When i took the old bearing off there was no spacer. The inner bearing race was as far up the drive shaft as it could go and was hard to get off. There is no spacer in the new bearing kit.
Do i Need the Spacer? Am i doing damage without it?

[THE ANORAK]

just looked at this in one of the mini world "keeping your mini alive" mags and it says that there should be a spacer between the inner bearing and the inner oil seal to help locate the seal correctly.

then is says that if the spacer is missing then it's still OK !!!

strange, if that's the case then why is it there in the first place.

i'm no expert but i like things to be done as they should be, if it was me, I'd get a spacer from somewhere but apparently you will be OK without.

hope this helps ???

[1293clubby]

just cant see where a spacer would go. the oil seal sits nicely against the inner bearing.