Hey Ben, sounds like you did okay. I do up the wheel bearing nut a little
tighter than that, all tightening being done WITH THE WHEEL SPINNING!!
Keeps a person from flat-spotting the bearings/denting the races.

It takes a screwdriver to pry that washer, in my scheme.

Being old-fashioned, I have drilled my nuts and use cotter pins to keep them
exactly where I want them.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Ben Cichowski <aquasheck@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> putting up a couple of posts, but separating by subject so others can
> hopefully find the info easier. I put in my front wheel bearings last night
> and wanted confirmation on the adjustment for these (the description in the
> manual is a bit ambiguous)
>
> Here's what I did:
> Tightened the nut on all the way to seat the outer bearing against race,
> then backed off until I could just slightly slide the thrust washer back and
> forth (took quite a bit of finger pressure to move it).
>
> Is this correct? I obviously don't want to have them too loose or too
> tight.
>
> Inner bearings are now well packed and have a new grease seal - outer ones
> were also packed well and I put on a new thrust washer and peen nut, just to
> preemptively avoid any questions on the subject.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
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