[Bricklin] How to fasten the front wheel bearing

[diraxel at hush.com]

Sven,

I had to replace my front wheel bearings last year, and unfortunately, the passenger side failed after 600 km. I think the wheel nut was probably tightened a bit too much: the nuts were backed off about a 1/4 turn (according to AMC documentation). I inquired about that on the mailing list right here, and according to the feedback I got (thank you again guys ;), it is supposed to be tightened until the hub binds while turning, then backed off about a half turn, rather than a 1/4 turn. Granted, it may depends too on how tight the nut is originally tightened...
Eventually, when I replaced the bearings again, the nuts were tightened until they binded (turn your disc/rotor from times to times to eliminate the slack), but then with a half turn, the nut really felt loose, so it was rather backed off about a third turn. I put more than a thousand kilometers on the odometer, drove the car in the tight curves of a mountainous area and both sides have been fine.


On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 2:17 AM, "Christopher Blizzard" <blizzard at 0xdeadbeef.com> wrote:
>
>The Bricklin manual has something different. It says to install 
>the bearings,
>tighten to 20-25 ft-lbs while turning the hub to seat the 
>bearings. Then back
>off about 1/3 of a turn and tighten the bolt to 2-10 inch lbs. 
>(inch!). So
>that works too.
>
>Sent from a portable phone device thing
>
>> On May 16, 2016, at 10:46 AM, John T. Blair <jblair1948 at cox.net> 
>wrote:
>>
>> At 05:46 PM 5/15/2016, sven koch wrote:
>>
>>> the 4 screws of the mounting plate for the front wheel.  Getting
>everything
>>> together was not a big challenge, but now my question is how to
>> tight/ adjust the
>>> wheel bearing.
>>
>> Sven,
>>
>> Quoting from the Chilton's AMC manual,
>>
>> "Place the hub assembly onto the spindle and install the inner
>> lockring and outer bearing.  Install the wheel bearing nut and 
>torque
>> it to 50 Ft Lb, while turning the wheel back and forth to seat 
>the
>> bearings.  Back off the nut about 1/4 turn (90deg) max."
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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