Rear wheel bearing help 16V (kinda long, sorry)

[scirocco at vintagewatercooleds.com (Eric S)]

Correct on the race/bearing orientation...and yeah, the synthetic bearing
grease is kickass.

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Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

79 VW Iltis
81 Rabbit Truck 2.0 16v
81 Scirocco S (TDI Swap project)
90 Corrado TDI
91 Cabriolet (2.0 Crossflow swap project)

Ryan H said:
> OK, got both sets of wheel bearings (inner and outer) for the rear, and I
> noticed one face (side?) of each bearing is narrow, the other face is
> wider.  Since the bearing can only go into the races narrow face first,
> I'm going to assume that the bearings, when in place, will both have the
> narrow side facing the *middle* of the disc.  Kinda like this:
>>  ||  <        where the lines represent the disc, carrots the bearings.
>> If so, how do the bearings actually stay in place?  ...mystical bearing
>> physics? ;)  I don't wanna accidentally tap the races in backwards,
>> that wouldn't be cool at all.
> Also, I bought some synthetic grease from Mobil One, since I trust their
> fluids (ewww!).  It's pink!  And it doesn't have a smell!  Anyone know of
> any issue using this stuff?  It better be good at 2 dollars more than the
> next most expensive.
> Thanks, and if you could reply to my email I'd appreciate it - I'm
> archived, but I wanna get the bearings done tonight.  Thanks all who've
> helped!!!
>
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