AJS 350 1954, Maintenance Manual And Instruction Book, Page: 68 / 96

TO DISMANTLE A REAR WHEEL BEARING
These Instructions need reference to the lower part of Illustration 22.
Remove wheel from machine.
Remove brake cover plate, with brake shoes, centre solid spindle with cams, spacers.
bushes, nut and speedometer gear box.
Turn to left-hand side and slacken lock nut (26).
Completely unscrew the adjusting ring (25) and take It away with the lock nut (26)
still on it.
Turn to the right-hand end of the hub and carefully apply steady pressure on the visible
steel washer (avoiding fouling the circlip that can be seen in the hub end), so that, in turn.
the cup housing (24) for the oil seal, the oil seal (23), the metal washer (22) that is behind
the oil seal, the spacing ring (21) that is between the metal washer and the taper bearing,
and outer cup (20) are ejected. These may be lifted away as they emerge,
The rollers in cage (20), the centre spacer (19) and the rollers in cage (18) may now be
lifted out of the hub.
Turn to the right hand end of the hub, carefully apply steady pressure to the visible
washer (avoiding fouling the circlip that can be seen in the hub end), so that the
complete right-hand assembly of oil seal and outer cup is pushed a trifle further into
the hub shell. This will take off pressure on the circlip, thereby making its extraction
an easy matter.
Extract circlip (12).
Through the open end of the hub carefully apply steady pressure to the inner edge of
the outer cup (18) so that it is forced out of the hub.
As it emerges, it will push, in front of it, the oil seal plain washer (13), the oil seal (14)
with its encircling spacer collar (15), the oil seal internal plain washer (16) and the spacing
ring (17) between the metal washer and the taper bearing, to be finally followed by the
cup (18).
The dismantling is then completed.
To re-fit, reverse the above procedure, remembering that, after cup (18), spacer (17),
washer (16), oil seal (14), spacer (15) and washer (13) have been inserted In the plain end
of the hub, to re-fit the circlip (12) and then carefully to apply steady pressure on the
inner edge of the cup (18) to force the above entire assembly tightly back against the
circlip (12).
FRONT BRAKE COVER PLATE
It is most important the front brake cover plate is correctly positioned.
It is retained to the front wheel spindle by an inside nut (part number 017003)
and an outside nut (part number 018071). Between the inside nut and the brake cover
plate is a locating washer (part number 017222.)
The inside nut must be positioned so that when the locating washer is placed next to
it and the cover plate applied, the outer face of the latter lies flush with the hub shell
edge.
The outside nut is fitted so that its hexagonal side is against the brake cover plate.
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