It's not easy when the bloody shims from the dealer keep on coming in sizes that they bloody well should NOT be...

1249940141 is meant to be 3.3mm mine is 3.2mm

1249940941 is meant to be 3.7mm mine is 3.66mm



These might seem like small differences but when the pre-load of the axial bearings is applied by stretching the casing by 0.1mm to 0.15mm...

...flipping heck...

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!