Front Wheel Bearing and Assembly Question

[Cyrotronix]

Greetings Vmax friends! I am a first time owner of one of these great bikes, and I've been doing some winter maintenance which has brought me to the front wheel bearings. I was unable to turn them with my finger so I decided to take them out. Which ended up being an awful nightmare because I couldn't get the distance spacer to move far enough out of way. When I finally did, I found the situation shown in the pictures. As I'm not too familiar with the setup on these, and I haven't found any good pictures of what that flat space is supposed to look like or do, I figured I'd come here. Because I'm guessing it's not supposed to be wedged onto the distance spacer like that? Maybe I'm wrong, but I wanted to verify before I go putting things back together.

Thanks for any help on this!
-Foy

 

[one2dmax]

That flange is there to prevent the spacer from falling down into the wheel. Not much magic to it.

 

[Cyrotronix]

Okay, so it’s supposed to be like that? Is that the way it’s supposed to go? The manual isn’t very clear in the orientation of it.

 

[MaxMidnight]

See the attached parts fisch.



This shows the washer (#3) fitting on to the spacer (#2) from the speedo drive side.

 

[Cyrotronix]

Right, that much I could tell. I just wasn't sure if the flange was to face the inside of the hub or the outside, or if it even mattered. I ended up reassembling it as it came out, and hoped the previous owner had done it right. The wheel bearings turn now, so I'm thinking I have it all right.

I'd just never seen something like that before and I have a habit of over complicating things.

I appreciate all the help, thanks!