The correct number and thickness of gaskets involves putting the covers on with a few gaskets and judging the "slop" when moving the empty tubes up & down and from side to side. With the proper combination of gaskets installed, the axle tubes should "glide" about with no stiffness, but shouldn't be too loose either. Clearance should be between 0.000" and 0.008". You should note one or two smaller holes near one of the six stud holes in each gasket. A gasket with only one of these smaller holes should be 0.004" thick while those with two should be 0.008" thick. When I assembled mine I first put everything together dry and intentionally used only a couple of gaskets. I cinched up the six retaining nuts slowly and carefully until I detected stiffness in the axle tube's movement (a hollow tube won't easily return to a fully down position after being lifted up). I then disassembled everything and reassembled using 0.004" more gasket thickness. When the binding disappeared after being correctly tightened up, I disassembled everything, noted the combined thickness required, and repeated the same procedure with the other tube. I then did a final dry run with both tubes installed, just to be sure, before using a THIN layer of RTV during final assembly.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Perez Sent: October 1, 2008 12:46 PM To: Air-Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List Subject: [vintagvw] # of swingaxle side plate gaskets? hey gang, I finally got around to pulling the leaky axletube retainer plates off of the '68 swingaxle type 1 trans installed in my 67 bus. When I first pulled them off there was alot of form-a-gasket on both sides of the paper gasket(s) that were in there. I didn't think to count how many paper gaskets were in there before I started scraping everything away. So now that I have it cleaned up, the parts store gave me 8-2 hole paper gaskets to put back. He said I might not need them all. So how many do I need? Thanks for any help. -pete fairfield, CA _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
