220 front left wheel hub

[Charles Adamson]

How is the ring removed so the wheel seal can be replaced?
Is their a pin holding it at about 4 o'clock?
Picture is attached.

Charles Adamson

[Scott Montoney]

I don't know what the original locking "pin" was, but when I did mine, it was a short threaded set-screw.  I had to first remove it, and then work on getting the retaining ring to unscrew.

[Charles Adamson]

Thanks Scott,

Does the ring turn clockwise to tighten?

Charles Adamson

[Scott Montoney]

My recollection is that both wheels were the same, and that clockwise did tighten the ring.
It was about 8 years ago when I did it and that was before I started taking detailed pictures.  Sorry.

[Henry Magno]

If you need new rings, I had some made. I did not keep extras to sell but I did sell them to Niemoeller and Werner Karasch.

[Charles Adamson]

Henry,

It looks like I have to drill out the set screw since someone damaged it.

What do you want for the ring?

Can you send a picture of the ring?

Charles Adamson

[Henry Magno]

Charles, I don't have extras to sell. I sold stock to Niemoeller and Karasch. Niemoeller has cheaper shipping to the US. I would e-mail Sven Jacob s.jacob@niemoeller.de and ask. I would be surprised if they sold them all, already. They will definitely be over $ 100 ea. Yes you may have to drill out the set screw which I believe is 5 mm. My routine is to drill and tap for a new set screw in different location when reassembling.

[Scott Montoney]

For what it's worth, I recall that the toughest part of the whole job for me was getting that ring removed.
If I had it to do again, I believe I would fabricate a piece of flat steel stock with three hardened pins to match the three holes in the ring.
It was very tight and hard to loosen.

[Charles Adamson]

Thanks to Henry and Scott for their information.

For now, I put the hub back on the car. It looks like a previous owner had done this project before.
The grease seal had some letters and numbers on it, BA 45 -60 -10.
The width is 60 mm and the depth is 10 mm.
The bearing was 53DE.

Charles Adamson

[Henry Magno]

I asked Sven at Niemoeller about the rings which were showing on the website as not available. This is an error, they are available. I must say that my machinist did a great job on these. We had an NOS ring to copy which helped.