I'm rebuilding the rear brakes and installing new outer oil seals on my Mk2 and confused about how many paper gaskets there should be. My car had only one each side (under the oil-seal retainer plate), shop-manual diagrams only show one, but parts manual says there should be two, and so do some online resources. Anybody know what is correct?

 

You have the inner seal, shims, backing plate, paper gasket, retainer, paper seal, oil seal container with seal, then hub.

 

I thought there was only 1 each side, inner seal, shims, paper gasket, oil seal with container then hub. I didn't have the backing plate or retainer, what are the part no's for these parts ?

 

hi this is Midge i have taken the rear hubs apart and removed the rear half shafts , the wheel bearing kit i purchased came with two bearings , two large oil seals which go into the retaining plate and it also came with two smaller oil seals but for the love of good i can not work out where they go , if some could advise me i would be so grateful , kind regards.

 

Hi,

I recall there only being one on each side - when the parts manual refer to '2" they mean on the axle as a whole (they quote 10 wheel nuts but NOT on each side). Regards Keith