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Yes. You could leave the half shaft on it and take it off as one piece.

If you are rotating the rear hub by hand you will be turning the half shaft and diff as well, so not a good indication.
Better to pull the whole hub off and spin it in your hands.
Undo the axle nut, pull out the ABS sensor, then undo the bolts at the rear of the hub and split the hub.
You can easily tell if the bearing is OK when you have it on the bench and spin it in your hands.
I couldn't get the old bearing off without destroying it.
An OEM bearing is a double roller Timken. The fronts usually go first ....say 100K miles. Rears ..... 150K miles imho, but big variation in this mileage I suspect.
The aftermarket hubs and bearings are ball bearings and don't last. Made in India or whatever.

I am talking about 8 years ago or more when I got Ashcrofts to fit my HP24 box. I then dealt direct with Dave Ashcroft and he couldn't have been more helpful. He even gave me a guided tour around his factory.

Your request may be landing on someone else's desk. As Richard said contact him directly.

I recognise your name. Welcome to the pub.

Another reason to get rid of the poly bushes.
You sound like a number 8. You are in my team anyway.

Welcome to the pub Grizzly.
You weigh 134kg ?? That is nearly 300 pounds in real money. Is that why you have that moniker?

Welcome to the pub. Don't know who pissed you off at RR.net but it is not as bad as it used to be.
The same Supermod runs the show on both now.
Lot of newbies on RR.net now asking dumb questions. Too lazy to look things up.
It is a pity you are not into diesel p38's with your experience.

Hi Sloth, I bought an Elegoo Mars printer on Amazon.
The resin is quite expensive at £35 /L. There are also some post printing treatment steps. The print needs to be washed then UV cured.
I use IPA in an ultrasonic bath then I use a UV light box to finish off the curing.

I built my own Reprap fused filament printer a number of years back, based on an Ordbot Hadron. It worked well for larger parts.
However the Arduino electronics proved very unreliable and I got pissed off with it. I haven't touched it for 2 years.
Another lockdown job is to replace the 8 bit Arduino with a 32 bit Duet board.

Another lockdown job.
I am into 3d printing and having bought a new UV resin printer, I have revisited an old project.
I did the drawing for the 3 gears in the blend motors and produced the .stl files to print out the gears a while back.
I originally tried to print them using ABS filament on my old printer but the resolution for printing small parts was not good enough.
My new resin printer is far better for small parts.

Blend Motor Gears

The genuine parts are on the left in the picture and my copies are on the right.
Not there yet, it needs a few more tweeks to match them more closely.
The resin is described as equivalent in strength to ABS.
I was going to use the shank of a suitable drill bit for the shaft.

Is there any interest in these parts? If so I will supply the files.
Constructive comments welcome.

Romanbob, I was not aware that windows could "hang on" to the camera after testing it. In any case, as I said, at one point I rebooted my pc and I went straight into jitsu and it didn't make any difference.

I would like to try a another (different) session just with someone's webcam pointing at something on the desk so I can sort it. Can we have a volunteer please?

I suspect it is one of the settings in the box at the top as Richard said.

Richard,
I think you have narrowed the problem down. Although, a box did open up and I had to give permissions for Firefox to use the camera and mic.

+1 on the cup of tea. Works wonders.
Come away from the job, think about it whilst having said cup of tea, then go back with full compliment of brain cells working.
Late at night a glass of Glenfiddich is an alternative.

I remember having a camera icon in the box at the top but I think it was red. I wonder if that was the problem?
I have just checked Firefox. I was on v76 and I have just upgraded to 77.0.1.
I have gone with defaults an enabled picture in picture video controls. Does jujitsu use Flash?
Can Gordon or you Richard leave a permanent session running and just point the camera at something on the desk?
It would give us chance to experiment before talk time.

Don't have an ipad, sorry. Only an android phone. I use for Whatsapp all the time.
I also have Whatsapp on my pc and that works very well. I have been in constant contact with my family during lockdown.
It is a separate app though. It doesn't use a browser.

Hi Sloth,
I typically get 65 to 70 Mbps download and 18 to 19 Mbps upload, so very good.
I have got Chrome already loaded on my machine, so I can try it.
Can we leave the session running and just point the camera at an object on the desk?
I would like to get the hardware sorted out first, before we have a natter.
I also need to read up on system requirements for jitsu.
I must add that I previously logged onto online sites using Firefox to test out my webcam and it worked perfectly.
Could there be a problem with different video and audio formats used by jitsu?
Maybe Firefox settings need to be altered?

I could see everyone as individual squares with all your names but I wasn't receiving any video and audio. I could see 9 of you, 10 at one stage.
I tested my webcam: first locally using windows and then a couple of online sites. I am using the latest edition of Firefox.
Fast 64 bit quad core Windows 10 machine, 16GB ram, decent Nvidia graphics card. Good webcam. Used the rrpubjune login.
I gave permission to Firefox to use my camera and microphone. Tried logging off then logging back in. Poured myself a whisky.
Set up studio lights and wrote all your names on separate cards. Poured myself another whisky.
Tried the comments section at the side. Saw a few of your messages. Sent a comment to Richard. No reply.
Poured another whisky. Tried the previous login. Then went back to rrpubjune. Tried experimenting with several passwords.
Closed Firefox, Tried Internet Explorer. Computer locked up. Rebooted. Poured another whisky.
Went back to Firefox. Could see you all but no video & audio. Looked at the settings in jitsu. Nothing much to alter.
Firefox said in the top bar it was connected and using an encrypted connection.
Went to bed.

user name and password?

Can't connect.

I have got an Allisport all aluminium radiator on my DSE which has been in for 8 or 10 years now.
It looks very similar to other brands like Direnza so I suspect they are all made in the far east.
Good thing is they are repairable. Mine was delivered with the inlet connection damaged in the post. It was squashed on one side. I carefully tapped
out the dent with a suitable socket inside. On another occasion a fan blade damaged a tube in the heater matrix. I practised my aluminium welding skills and fixed it.
The one I have got is for a diesel with the manual gearbox. It has a gearbox cooler built in to the radiator. Mine has the auto box though, so I was planning on using the built in cooler and remove the one under the front wing. That would allow me to fit fog lights. Job no.386 on the list.

I have just bought the same dewalt impact gun, romanbob. Nice piece of kit. Still finding uses for it.

A few years ago I bought a 3/4" Teng torque wrench on Ebay. It is a big thing with a 5ft handle. You can get them cheap when engineering companies sell them off with no calibration certificate. Far easier on big stuff with the 3/4" drive gear. The Teng is really too big for wheel nuts but it is more than enough for the hub nuts. Only problem I had was undoing the crankshaft nut on my diesel. It needed about 280 ft lbs from memory. I bent the special tool that holds the pulley.