Rear wheel hub spacer - which way round?

[Dark Skies]

I've just removed the rear sprocket carrier from the cush drive. As I did so the spacer from inside the carrier (fits between the sprocket side hub bearing and the inner hub bearing) plopped onto the floor. It's the same one as fitted to the Z1000 J1 & 2 / R1 & R2 Eddie Lawson Replicas / all the Police bikes / and GPZs.

I noticed that the heavily tapered side was fitted towards the outer bearing - the flat shouldered side towards the inner hub bearing. I'm pretty sure this was incorrectly fitted by the previous owner / some mechanic.

The reason I think this is that that the tapered side wouldn't have seated against the inner race of the outer bearing properly - only partially seating at its widest point. Also the end of the none tapered side of the spacer is a good bit wider (30 mm) and when turned around fits snugly into the inner race of the outer hub bearing whereas the tapered side flops about loosely.

Can anyone confirm that I'm right and the tapered shoulder faces inwards towards the inner hub bearing. See pics.

[ludders]

Hi Dark Skies
i striped my z1a over the weekend and the spacer is as you thought,

tapered shoulder faces inwards
look's exactly the same as your's

[RALPHARAMA]

Second pic looks right to me. The spacer has machined datum faces with an undercut which should fit in the bearing. The tapered side doesn't locate against anything except the very end face.

[FER]

2nd picture is right way round .








fer

[Dark Skies]

Thanks everyone. I was pretty sure that was how it should be - just didn't want to have a nagging concern once everything was back together.