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Subject:Re: Rear hub tightness
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:02:18 -0500

At 04:42 PM 11/12/2002, Stan Wilder wrote:
>260 Foot pounds .............. go to a Truck Stop that has a mechanic.

Stan, that's for the 6-slot nut that is supposed to be discarded any time
you touch one of these axles and replaced with the ten-slot nut torqued to
360 lb-ft/500 NM.  Apparently they were having trouble with people rounding
off the splines or some such.

david

>Stan
>
>On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:10:02 -0700 Gnarlodious
><gnarlodious@CYBERMESA.COM> writes:
> > My rear hub got a little loose. I took it to a place and they

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'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
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