Refer to axle sleeve posting dated aug 19th. I have afew questions: 1. It appears the outter sleeve can be installed on the wrong side.( inners also I guess). The dimple will lock in but the grease hole in the sleeve and the grease hole in the axle housing will not line up. Is this correct? 2.The inner sleeve is the same part number as the outter sleeve right and left. Is this correct? and 3. The dart or arrow on the inner should point in the same direction as the outter. Yes or no? My small library is very sketchy on the inners.The Bible only states to inspect them as they take less wear that the outters. Have changed my outters and was careful about the part #'s and if the grease holes aligned which they did.

If you have the outer sleeve installed correctly, both the dimple and the grease hole will line up. If the dimple is in and the grease hole is not lined up, you have the sleeve in the wrong side. However that sleeve will be correct for the inner sleeve on that same side of the axle housing.
Norm

Norman made it a little confusing, but he has it correct.

Jack Putnam - you got it

Mike Walker and reference to Uncle Stan explain it clearly.


1. How is this. There are 2 axle housings. Place one axle housing on your work bench, leave the other one on the floor, and forget that it exists. Each axle housing uses a right and a left sleeve. Place one of each on your work bench.

2. Forget that there is a right and a left, and that there is an inner and outer sleeve. Determine which sleeve goes in the housing on the side with the grease hole so that the grease hole and dimple hole line up correctly. This is the same side of the housing where the wheel will end up.

3. The other sleeve will go into the housing on the other side where the differential is located.

4. Both darts(arrows) will point up or point down, depending upon how you laid the axle housing on the work bench.

I hope this clears things up. My thanks to all who posted earlier.

Obviously the hole in the inner sleave does not have to line up with any grease hole, just the dimple.

What is the theory on the 'arrow' shaped slot on these? In the direction of rotation of the bearing (Let's assume we are going forward since we do that 99% of the time), does the bearing turn in the direction that the arrow shaped slot points, or does it turn so that it strikes the point of the arrow shaped slot first?

Also, I assume it is designed so that the arrow is at the bottom of the axle so the weight of the car doesn't bear on the slot, but on the smooth side of the sleeve instead?

The arrow is so that the rollers don't fall into a straight slot. I don't think it matters which direction the arrow points relative to roller motion, but, like many things, I could be wrong about that.

Seth, I think that is what I was looking for, is it important to have the arrows pointing in one direction? After thinking about it and reading the posts here, I beleive that this is the correct way to install the sleeves. One other item, last night I was having trouble closing the axle case, I found that the (inner) bearing would not slip into the sleeve. Turns out that the dimple on the sleeve is positioned too far out on the sleeve and would not completely sit in the axle case slot. This caused the sleeve to sit up and not allow the bearing to slip in. I had to grind off a little of the dimple to get the sleeve to lay falt in the bore.