Neil
Supporter
Markus;Hello all,
Bringing up an old thread...
Anybody out there who did the "donkey work" described by Jac Mac regarging finding shims matching the spindles?
So far I got away with frequent adjustment of wheel bearings but getting tired of this and looking into making a sleeve + (buying) shims to extend TBO.
On a separate topic, today I wenn through "all (?)" of the SPF wheel bearing threads and found all kind of information about what to do and the discussion about the Design flaw except a consistend description of the "preload" during bearing adjustment.
1. Some (most) talk about preload the bearing (which in my understanding would be fully tighten the nut and then add some "torque" to "preload" the bearing)
2. others describe to fully tighten the nut and then turn the nut counterclock wise to give "air" into the bearing
So far I used method # 2. - I turned counterclockwise about two holes from of the adjustent nut.....
Any comments?
Thanks in advance
Markus
When we ran an M8C in Can-Am in '72 & '73, we adjusted the pre-load on the wheel bearings as follows:
1. Tighten the wheel retaining nut lightly finger tight.
2. Spin the wheel/tire by hand rapidly.
3. With a socket wrench, tighten the nut until you feel the rotation begin to slow.
4. Back off to the next lock notch.
Simple.