If the cotter pin hole doesn't line up to your satisfaction, try swapping
nuts, washers, nuts&washers side to side. If you are particularly anal, you
could lap the washer down, or place a suitably sized shim between washer and
nut.
A further option is to drill another hole in the axle. A second hole at 90
degrees to the original hole gives you a 'half-castellation' adjustment
because you now have two options for the pin through the axle, but three
through the nut (if that makes sense)
Beatle
Alfaless in Oz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Mitchell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:39 PM
Subject: [Spam] [alfa] wheel bearing tightness
Yes, the first stage is 14.8-17.7 ftlb and the second is 3.7-7.4 ftlb.
there is runout specified for the ABS cars, .0008-.005" with a
tighten/loosen
procedure.
Somtimes you might feel that the holes in the castellated nut don't seem
to
line up at a "just right" spot. There is a "peenable" nut from Alfa
somewhere
that addressed that. Others have identified a (I think?) Mercedes spindle
nut
that has an Allen-wrench lockable feature. Always wanted to try them, but
never seem to remember to get any. Cotter pins are cheap.
Hope that helps,
Allen
_________________________________________________________________
Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9690331&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:
WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009
--
to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi
or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
--
to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi
or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
