Bob,
A respected mechanic told me he set a car up by the book. On his own,
the customer tightened them up and they burned out.
John Cowan
At 08:29 PM 9/17/2000, you wrote:
>Dear TR3 Intelligentsia,
>
>I rebuilt the front hubs on my TR3 today with new inner and outer
>bearings and races. The book says to load the bearing nut to 10
>ft.lb (I made a guess at this) then back off 1.5 to 2 flats depending
>on alignment of the cotter pin holes. When I did that I got a wheel
>with a lot of play in it. Grabbing the top and bottom of the wheel
>and shaking produced a lot of rattling. So I snugged the nut up one
>flat which took out the rattle.
>
>Did I do the right thing? How loose should the front wheels be? Any ideas?
>
>Bob
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