With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

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2008 January 20 19:05

I'm finally back working on the beetle again; of course, the coldest day of the winter.

Workbench before cleaning it off:

Ready to begin work:

The axle tied up to the frame of the car to get it out of the way:

I was able to push the stub axle out this far:

Here's the stub axle on the work bench. This is what the drive axle bolts to, so when grinding out the bolt, what I was trying to save was this part.

The whole assembly without the axle. The silver ring around the hole is the outer spacer.

On the left is the center race of the roller bearing (which is the outer bearing). On the right is the outer spacer.

The housing where you can see the rollers of the roller bearing. The tube you can see past the middle of the bearing is the inner spacer sleeve.