Flogged hub

[Flying Kiwi]

Hey all, winter here which sux. I'm onto doing front end suspension and found that drivers side hub rotor thingy is totally flogged out, someone filled the cavity with a resin and put the outer bearing back in and no seal on the inside of the hub. I understand that it is impossible to buy an original replacement. have found a few aftermarket ones on Ebay. do I buy 1??? or should I buy 2? being a one piece rotor compared to the original. mine is a 72 RR model. is going to cost a fortune to get here what ever I do. Enjoy your sunshine and Cheers

 

[SomeCarGuy]

If I’m understanding this correctly, your outer bearing race is trashed or at least the rotor is hogged out where the race sits. Look on Rockauto for a list of bearings. Timken used to be the best. These days, who knows.

Either you just need a new bearing and race, and you drive the new race in, or you need a new rotor. Same principle applies if you have a drum.

If your spindle is trashed, you are right. No new one, but those are common enough you can still get one from a US junkyard.

Maybe post a pic?

 

[Flying Kiwi]

wish it was that simple. There is no meat to put a race in the front. and nothing on the back to hold the seal. there was no seal. The rotor itself is so badly scored on the back only, otherwise I would look at getting it all built up and machined out again probably over a grand for an engineer to do. adays work my guess only. I have a mate looking for 1 over in your part of the world and going to try Stephens also. Ihave been advised not to put after market stuff on the car until the car has been complied here first. bureaucracy bullshit. will try n put some photos up today. such a cool car mate.

 

[SomeCarGuy]

Go on fbbo and find a guy named mobileparts.

Just get a new rotor and be done with it. Not super hard to track down in the states.