Manual hub install question

[jj big shoe]

I'm installing a set of Selectro hubs on my '87 (ebay- $29.95 shipped! Woohoo!)and I have a question about the snap ring (BTW, I did use the search and couldn't find a difinitive answer). There's two recesses in the drive shaft, one inner (which was the original location of the snap ring) and one outer. It looks like the new hub innards cover the inner recess so the ring can't go back on where it came off, and if I install the ring on the outer recess it looks like it won't hold anything inside the hub anyway.

Do I put it on the outer recess anyhow or should I leave it out so it won't interfere with the hub's mechanics?

I'll check back in a few because right now I'm off to get some blue locktite. I swear I can't find any of my stuff since I moved!

 

Thanks

[Pathfinder Phil]

Outer.

[88pathoffroad]

I think the different grooves are for manual or auto hubs. Autos use the outer ring groove and manuals use the inner groove. Is the axle pulled all the way into it's socket? Sometimes they like to retreat a little just enough so the c-clip won't go into the groove. I've seen a Pathy with Warn hubs on and no c-clip at all, (junkyard) apparently it worked for them.

[unccpathfinder]

doing my 87 i had to remove that washer with the spline groves cut in it b.c if i left it in there it would keep the hubs engaged all the time but did put the snap ring back on

[Harbinger]

When I pulled my CV the other week the snap ring was on the inside grove, and I have auto hubs.

[jj big shoe]

Outer.

Thanks, that's what I figured. Seems kinds pointless for it to be there, though (like the JY Pathy w/ Warns observation). I guess it keeps the axle from sliding into the diff too far?

 

Autos use the outer ring groove and manuals use the inner groove.

Thanks, that would explain the reason for two grooves. I think you have it reversed, though. Manual = outer / Auto = inner.

[mws]

Well, let us know how it works out!

 

If we don't hear anything within a couple weeks, we'll have to assume what you did was wrong and you're stranded 2 miles outside of BFE... who should we call?

[88pathoffroad]

Thanks, that would explain the reason for two grooves. I think you have it reversed, though. Manual = outer / Auto = inner.

Aha, my bad. I didn't look when I had mine off the other day.

[jj big shoe]

Whelp, they're on there. I might not get a chance to actually try them out until I go to Ocala Nat. Forest in June though.