[Tigers] loose rear hubs

[Thomas Witt]

Owain,
  I just looked at my hub/nut and my spare axle.  This is what I have come 
up with:

Are you sure that the nut is actually tightening the hub?  Which leads to:

 Is the nut running out of threads (hitting the axle taper) before the hub 
is tight?
There is a washer between the nut and hub. Maybe someone turned the face of 
the hub to true it up (like in damaging it to get the thing off).  Maybe you 
can try two washers???

Is the key sticking out, wedging and the nut is tightening against the key 
and not the hub?

Theo is right, the taper alone should hold the hub.  I remember when I was a 
student at L.A. Trade Tech a skinny student "tapped" a tapered piece into 
the horizontal mill.  It took all the force the instructor could muster to 
get it out - after many tries.

Tom 


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