Pete :
I would be most concerned about the nut going too far down the stub
axle, IMO that's worth pulling the hub to investigate. Look for the
stub axle coming loose in the vertical link, and the bearings themselves
breaking up.
The factory felt seal goes with the felt side towards the vertical
link. Compressing it should not be a factor, if you used the procedure
of torquing the axle nut, then backing off the specified number of
flats. It may not look very efficient, but since it's primary job is
not keeping grease in the hub, but rather keeping dirt out, it works
surprisingly well.
Randall
Pete & Aprille Chadwell wrote:
>
> I put the front end of the TR6 up in the air again this morning in
> order to bleed the brakes and check the front hubs. What I
> discovered is that since Monday night when I put it all back together
> again, the hubs had loosened quite a bit
> and I mean A LOT! But
> when I re-adjusted the hubs, I found that now the cotter pin would
> barely engage the castellated nut, since now the nut had been
> threaded further down onto the stub axle. This time I used an
> additional plain washer under the nut to shim it out so that the pin
> is engaged properly in the nut.
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