[TR] TR4A Hub Bearing Kit Install - Advice?

[triumph at 2simpleusa.com]

Having done about 5 of these now, I have always found them a little tight to turn after everything is put back together.  You didn't mention if you had set the end float?  I think (I stress think, since its been a few years since I did this) that if the collapsible washer was "over tightened" you might have some binding, but you'd also have some noticeable end float too.

You're conversational style tells me that you must of had the one in a million hubs that came apart with a gentle puff of WD40 and a light tap with a jewelry hammer!  I'm currently 4-1 in the hub rebuild stakes, and had to beat the living s**t get the hub flange off on all but one hub (and that one it was so far gone that the flange had all but parted company with the hub), and admitted defeat on one that is now a shelf ornament!

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Tony Gordon
72 TR6
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>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Brian Thomas <thomasb at queensu.ca>
>  Subject: [TR] TR4A Hub Bearing Kit Install - Advice?
>  Sent: May 30 '08 07:46
>  
>  Hi,
>  
>  Last weekend the inner bearing on my TR4A (with IRS) became
>  toast.  Thankfully this was at the end of a 250+ mile trip.
>  
>  Yesterday, I installed a replacement bearing kit including inner and
>  outer bearings, seals and collapsible distance piece.  While it's all
>  back together,  the hub seems hesitant to turn as easily as the other
>  side.  It drives fine.  I torqued the nut that holds on the hub to
>  100 lbs as per specs.
>  
>  Note that this hesitancy to turn was present even before the brake
>  drum went on (so it's not brake related).   By hesitant to turn, I
>  mean I can't grab the hub and turn it by hand.  With the wheel
>  installed, it turns.
>  
>  Do I have a problem or is this the way it is with a new bearing install?
>  
>  Advice gratefully appreciated!
>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Brian