Wheel Bearing identification

Thanks. Maybe I misunderstood the previous posts. Funny as I have had both front and rear bearings out recently but I could not recall the size of the larger front one compared to the rear. I have already completed one side and it went on OK, or so i thought at the time, although the pre load was difficult as my vice is not fixed to a firm enough structure. I got it to the lower end of the recommended range and left it at that. The other side I also assembled, but put it back together wrong (don't ask) so had to disassemble . When I disassembled I noticed that the collapsable spacer was intact (well without an electron microscope it appeared to be), unlike the rather crushed ones I removed initially. So I assume my loading was inadequate. When I tried to reassemble using the same untouched spacer there was a huge amount of end float. Is this non obvious crushing of the spacer? Sounds odd. I will get back to it tomorrow with a new inner bearing and a better way to torque the nut. So how much force is needed, in anecdotal extension bar length and exertion levels?

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Well, it looks like the spacer did collapse a tiny bit so I need to get a new one. The ones I took out had a huge buckle in so i was expecting to see that again, maybe the new ones were smaller. Anyway I still don't get to have all four wheels on for yet another week or two.....maybe this is the longest recorded wire wheel swap in history.
 
Well, the eternal wire wheel swap rolls on. Turns out that I only discovered just how much true force was needed to install the bearings when I took the drive shaft off at the universal joint (wheel end) so I could get it in a proper position to apply proper violence to the 3ft extension bar. It takes rather a lot of violence to achieve the specified resistance to rotation. Now I know that the other one, not subjected to this level of violence probably needs to be tightened up. Oh and I never needed the new spacer in the first place. I hope this sounds about right........

I celebrated my defeat of the bearing spacer by ruining the universal joint on reassembly. Amazingly they have 'em at Napa auto parts round the corner :)

I will be wire wheeling in a few days. This time it's final...........
 
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