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Originally Posted by autozen
You're out of your freakin mind. You don't seat races by tightening the nut. You seat races by pressing or hammering them home with a race installer. Then you install the bearings and set the preload by the means that have been described earlier in this thread.
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Actually, its unlikely that you can sufficiently accurately seat the races using either a press or a drift. Nothing will apply the pressure as evenly as the actual adjusting nut, when a few thousands of an inch clearance is the spec. It IS the races you are seating properly - the bearings do not need 'seating' between their mating parts, so the 45 ft-lb torque would accomplish nothing if this were the case.
Steve