Those are good tips Jake. Didn't know about the wheel spinning thing.
Makes sense.

I too recall the screwdriver technique. (from other vehicles)

Another job I'll need to look into soon!

Neil.

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Jake de Villiers
<crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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