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Re: wheel wobble woes

To: "Graham Stretch" <technical@iwnet.screaming.net>,
Subject: Re: wheel wobble woes
From: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:35:17 -0500
At 09:48 PM 02/22/00 -0000, Graham Stretch wrote:
>
>Hi Jeff
>To adjust, remove the cap in the centre of the
>hub, remove the split pin, adjust the nut tighter under light pressure from
>a socket wrench until movement stops then back off about 1 flat until a new
>pin will go through the hole some models have 2 holes in the stub axle to
>allow a greater choice of fitting. That's the official method, 

Graham,

I'll interject here that the Bentley manual says to remove the brake
caliper first. I think this is to prevent the brake pads from resisting the
proper seating of the bearings on the stub axle.

I'm lazy, I just loosen the caliper bolts.

By the way, I'm sad to report that the release-nut-glued under-the
center-hub-cap trick, failed me the other day. The hub cap/dust cover was
new; it held so tightly the nut broke free, so I had to vise-grip the cap
off anyway.  :(

Good thing I didn't have any gunpowder....right Carter?



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