rear wheel bearing - Circlip?

[willg54]

Quick question,

When i removed the wheel bearings from my rear hubs, i didnt remove any big circlips, but after looking on kate, it clearly shows that there is one.

Should there be a circlip or not?

Cheers

Will

[denniselbows]

I have sone several wheel bearings on my coupe and have never had to take out a curclip and I don't think there is a groove for one either . But all the bearing kits Ive had have come with circlips they have just gone in the spare nut and bolt bucket .

[willg54]

i didnt recall seeing a circlip groove either. they're at the sand blasters right now so couldnt check.

cheers!

[denniselbows]

They are a good tight fit in the hubs so wouldn't mater to much if they didn't go back in if there in the first place .

[Pirvu Eugen]

Hi! I know is old thread..but...i have removed an old rear bearing from an coupe 3b and couldint find any circlips..but, there is one circlip groove close to the inwards ridge.
No ideea what to do... should be an circlip there? or the bearing is supposed to press till the ridge and that is all?
Thank You!

[Pirvu Eugen]

Solved! There is no circlip there! Is just an manufacture ridge i suppose.
Iff you fit circlip there the bearing will stay too much out...
Sorry for this.

[90quattrocoupe]

Depending upon the year of manufacturing, the hub carrier may or may not have the circlip. If it has a ridge, this acts the same as the circlip. If the hub carrier has a groove, you need a circlip.

Greg W.

[Mikes2]

They changed to tapered / stepped bearings which don't use the circlips. Earlier type 85 and some type 89s used parallel bearings which needed circlips

[Pirvu Eugen]

Good info!!
It was strange... but on these hub cariers.. the bearing has an stop towards diff..nothing else