Thread: Loose bearings
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Old 01-24-2006, 11:37 AM
Kestas Kestas is offline
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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.
You misunderstood me. You don't use the nut to mount races, only to seat them. I happen to be a bearing engineer and this is the terminology we use. I hope I didn't word it such that it can be misinterpreted. Mounting may not be enough to seat the races. And even if they weren't replaced it's always a good idea to take the extra step and make sure they're seated because of any micromovement that can unseat the races, which can happen for any number of reasons.
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