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Re: loose but new bearings BUMMER!

To: jboatri@emory.edu, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: loose but new bearings BUMMER!
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 06:00:16 EDT
In a message dated 10/9/2001 9:03:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jboatri@emory.edu writes:


> 1. Though I torqued the castellated axle nut correctly, is this 
> something to check again, or would it even have any effect?
> 

Don't you have to torque them, then run them to "seat them in", then torque 
them again?  Seems like I remember that from somewhere.  I put new bearings 
on my son's Bronco II and he ran it for some time and noted that the steering 
felt loose.  I rattled the front wheels and the bearings were loose.  I had 
to re-torque them.  My guess was that they had "seated" and should have been 
retorqued.

--David C.



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