following this earlier: http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=139189

I've just done the wheel bearing with only a couple of bolts giving me hassle - but as soon as put the wheel back on the disc jams against the caliper carrier
I can't see anything wrong with how its put together so now I'm stuck

any ideas ? (btw its a mk1 focus without ABS)

I don't know the setup of focus bearings, but it sounds to me like the bearing either isn't fully pressed in or you've been supplied the wrong part.

After you'd pressed the bearing into the carrier did you press the flange into the bearing? If it's not fully home then thats the result you'd get.

adrian

The bearing is fully pressed in (there is a circlip that holds it) and the hub is fully pressed into the centre.....

Wheel bearing fitted wrong way round ?

they are the same both ways round.....

Disc inserted the wrong way round?

Silly suggestion but you never know.

the disc is the right way round...

it looks like its actually slightly too far on - but I can't see how it could be

just had a call from my dad, he recons one of the pad guide bits is bent

any chance of a picture?

not for a while I'm stuck at work

Pad guides bent?? Did you press it out with the hub supported on the mounting lugs for the caliper?

for about 1 second with hardly any force (didn't even regester on the gauge)

then decided that they wern't strong enough and changed the supports - but I guess that was already too late

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Originally posted by mcerd1
they are the same both ways round.....

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Originally posted by britishtrident

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Originally posted by mcerd1
they are the same both ways round.....

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Usually they have a very subtle difference, on front wheel drives the internal bore of the bearing usually has a more generous radius where it meets one face.

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