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Originally Posted by Diesel911
If you got new axles direct from Mercedes reusing the old spacers does not guarantee a fit.
On the Chinese axles people have in some cases slid on the spacers and found that the spacers will not go up flush aging the housing as they are supposed to due to the way the axle was machined and it hanging up on the inside diameter of the Spacer.
You won't know till you get your axles and see.
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I don't fully understand how the stub axles hang up on the spacers.Have you had this experience yourself? Friend who is helping me with this has a lot of old axles with spacers, so perhaps we can at least try one on new axles before pulling the axles out of my car. Maybe they need to be reamed out a little?
So far as thickness is concerned,
VSTech said at one time that the spacers match the diff housing and that the axles all have the same insert length. At least with MB axles. My concern, is that after installing the stub, we may decide we needs different thickness spacers. Wonder how easy those are to get! They come in 9 sizes from 0.7mm to 1.5mm in 0.1mm increments. They may be common to a number of cars, but I get the feeling they may also be 2+ weeks delivery from Germany
If lucky, some of the old ones may work. Or we will have to have them made or ground down.
A lot of owners have exchanged axles, so it can't be that bad.