I had always adjusted bearings by prying the 
washer with the blade of the screwdriver.  One 
edge of the blade against the washer, the other 
against the hub/rotor/drum.  Seems like in my 
vanagon Bentley specifically states that it is 
not a prying motion, just a pushing sideways 
action.  This makes for much looser adjustment.  Opinions?

Edward

>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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